The new world champion of irony 172
Posted on
May 14, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘media’
Only Bad In Scotland 344
Posted on
May 10, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Following the Scottish media’s week-long frenzy of stories about the “scandal” of baby boxes – in which it was revealed to the astonishment of the nation that cardboard is flammable and incapable of stopping an armoured assault from a tank division or a zombie plague – we were a little startled to note that the Guardian (which has now run THREE stories about how terrible it is to give babies nice free stuff) didn’t always have such a downer on the project.
Apparently (and as recently as this February) baby boxes are “great innovations” and “hugely popular” – so long as the SNP aren’t involved, of course, at which point they turn into grotesque deathtraps.
And it got us wondering: what else is only terrible when it happens in Scotland?
Lower than the lowest low 248
Posted on
May 09, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We must admit, we didn’t think this would be beaten so soon.
But there you go. Just goes to show you how little we know about the sick, despicable, sewer-dredging shitfestival that is the Scottish media, and how badly even we’ve been overestimating their humanity all these years.
“Scandal”.
It says “scandal”.
To hell with every last one of these worthless sacks of parasitic filth. And their horses.
The same difference 182
Posted on
May 08, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This one won’t take long. This is the front page lead on today’s Herald:
It’s a trope beloved of Unionists (and was a particular favourite of the paper’s departed columnist David Torrance) – how dare Scotland imagine that it’s special? – and the Herald bangs the drum extra-hard this morning, with Anas Sarwar given lots of room to talk Scotland down while insisting that he’s not talking Scotland down, claiming that the idea of Scotland being “less intolerant than our neighbours” is a myth.
So let’s just check the facts.
In vino non-veritas 214
Posted on
May 07, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish Sunday Express yesterday had a shock-horror exposé about a “HUGE loophole” in the Scottish Government’s minimum-pricing legislation for alcohol.
We thought we’d give it a quick once-over. You’re in for a HUGE shock, readers.
The twisted firestarters 609
Posted on
May 04, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s not easy to type with your jaw on the floor, readers.
But in the six and a half years we’ve been watching the Scottish media here on Wings, this surely has to be an all-time low.
The Box Of DEATH 291
Posted on
May 03, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Today’s Daily Record runs with a bizarre story lifted from yesterday’s Guardian, which resurrected the media’s longstanding but latterly-dormant hate campaign against the Scottish Government’s popular “baby box” initiative.
Universal free baby boxes have been used in Finland for the past 69 years with no negative consequences, and have indeed coincided with an absolutely enormous reduction in child mortality there. They’re being increasingly adopted all over the world, and are also sold commercially in the UK for up to £450.
Uniquely, however, in Scotland they’re bad.
Nicola Sturgeon: a clarification 273
Posted on
April 30, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We apologise if any readers were inadvertently given a misleading impression by any of these headlines, stories or claims.
The correct version of the report is below.
28* Years Later 9
Posted on
April 25, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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So, yeah. It was on this day in 1991 that the first ever proper issue of Amiga Power (A Magazine With Tatty Shoes, or something) hit Britons’ newsagents’ shelves.
>>SUB: PLEASE CHECK IMAGE
And while vast numbers of old games magazines are now available to read as lovely friendly PDFs or similar that you can load up onto your computer or electro-tablet and flick through page by page in a gratifying manner, AP inexplicably isn’t.
Or is it? Or IS it? OR IS IT?
The building bricks of bullshit 317
Posted on
April 24, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As alert readers will recall, nowadays we only look at the Scottish Daily Express if we’re absolutely desperate for material, so this piece slipped past us a few days ago:
And since the only thing in the papers today is page after page of unbearable fawning drivel about the stupendously insignificant (fifth in line to the throne, will never ever be king unless a terrorist blows up Buckingham Palace with an atomic bomb, is roughly as important to the wellbeing of the nation as Hamilton Accies’ third-choice goalkeeper) royal baby, we figured we may as well have a look at it now.
The Scottish Media For Dummies 201
Posted on
April 23, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A beginner’s guide to how it works:
SUNDAY: The Sunday Times copies an SNP BAD nonsense story wholesale from the previous day’s Scottish Daily Mail.
Due diligence 195
Posted on
April 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Even in a sluggish news season, it’s somehow extra-dispiriting to see a once-august newspaper like the Sunday Times fill its pages by trying to flog its readers reheated old cobblers from the previous day’s Daily Mail.
We’ve already shredded the towering stupidity of the story itself (the Times dutifully repeats all the exact same drivel about meal deals and loyalty vouchers), so we were pleased when social media presented a new angle on it.
