The Stockholm Troopers 697
Posted on
April 28, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Anyone up for their taxes being used to bail out Scottish newspapers?
No, we didn’t think so.
Archive for the ‘media’
The poisoned pens 936
Posted on
April 05, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scotland’s media is still unable to contain its outpouring of bitter, resentful rage over Alex Salmond’s exoneration by a jury on trumped-up sexual assault charges.
Flailing blindly in all directions it’s achieving little other than to embarrass itself, such as last night when Scotland On Sunday had to change its front page in a late panic. But the media’s toxic fury at being denied Salmond’s head on a pole has also led it to do something far, far more serious and reckless.
And every one of them knows exactly what they’ve done.
The women you mustn’t believe 390
Posted on
March 29, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It will come as little surprise to any observer of the Scottish media for the last decade that the trial of Alex Salmond is to continue indefinitely after the actual court case that cleared him of all charges.
With very occasional honourable exceptions, including some from rather unexpected sources, the Scottish press has been – even by its own spectacularly low standards – an absolute sewer for the past week. Wings has taken the decision not to link to any of the most disgusting articles, even as archives, because frankly in the current stressful situation none of us needs any extra poison in our headspace.
Scotland’s political journalists have been unable to contain their seething fury at being robbed of the head on a pike that they were all expecting and salivating about like Pavlov’s dogs. But scumbags are gonna scumbag, and that’s not news. What’s far more alarming is something in today’s papers that they didn’t write.
When you put your life in their hands 35
Posted on
January 31, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, here’s your New Britain. Here’s your “better deal”. Own it, you tossers.
The Failure 173
Posted on
December 23, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We got blocked by LBC’s James O’Brien today for very gently and politely challenging him over this tweet:
And while this site most assuredly carries no torch for Jeremy Corbyn, it’s a reframing of reality that merits a bit of investigation for what it tells us about the UK media.
Nine Minutes Later 134
Posted on
December 10, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Two stories from yesterday’s Scottish papers, published at 11.19am and 11.28am:
But it’s even weirder than it looks.
We are lost for words 295
Posted on
November 06, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It doesn’t happen often, but it has today. Because Nick Robinson said this:
You know, Nick Robinson. It was Nick Robinson who just complained about someone misleadingly editing an interview to make it look as though someone hadn’t answered a question. Seriously, the actual Nick Robinson.
We’ve got nothing, folks.
How numbers work, with Paul and John 241
Posted on
August 30, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We just watched a nine-minute segment on Sky News, purportedly on the subject of “Is the Union between Scotland and England under threat?”, which for maximum balance and impartiality included views from both Labour and the Tories – in the forms of Paul Sweeney MP and John Lamont MP – but nobody else.
Both men spouted some quite extraordinary claims, all of which went unchallenged by presenter Adam Boulton. Let’s just take a quick look at a couple of the best ones.
Wait, what?
We agree with Dorothy 209
Posted on
August 22, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It seems mad that this even needs to be said.
Luckily, as always, Wings is way ahead of the zeitgeist.
