Phew, that was close 162
Posted on
January 20, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Remember the scary old days, readers?
Thankfully, Scotland voted No and pensions were saved forever.
Archive for the ‘media’
The Hammer Of The Fakehearts 214
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January 18, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Thanks to the Scottish Daily Mail, we’ve just spotted a piece by the Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin for City AM a few days ago. We had an inordinate amount of trouble getting the full article to display past the site’s incredibly over-zealous advert enforcer, so we’ve preserved it for posterity here.
There’s a gem in every paragraph. You’re going to like this one.
To cut out and keep 347
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January 13, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We thought we might leave this here so that Scottish journalists could print it out and stick it on their monitors as a memory aid. It’s something they keep unaccountably forgetting for some reason.
You never know, it might just cheer them up a bit.
The ambulance chasers 302
Posted on
January 11, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The sewer press 261
Posted on
January 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So, this appeared in the Herald today:
And that’s a problem, because it’s a complete and utter lie.
Meet the new year, same as the old year 94
Posted on
January 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As politics wakes up from the holidays, any readers still bothering to gaze at the pages of the Scottish media could be forgiven for a crushing sense of deja vu.
In more senses than one.
A whole new world 201
Posted on
January 01, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
Order “Welcome To Cairnstoon”, Chris’ compilation of Wings cartoons and more, here.
The media they don’t like to talk about 229
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December 31, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Below is a very interesting 13-minute chat from this afternoon’s John Beattie Show on Radio Scotland, also featuring Stuart Cosgrove (presenter of the excellent footy prog Off The Ball) and Eamonn O’Neill, who we presume is this Eamonn O’Neill.
(The John Beattie Show, BBC Radio Scotland, 31 December 2015)
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Naturally we like it because there’s mention of Wings, which – for just about the first time we can recall on broadcast media in our four-year life – isn’t about how vile and awful we are, but the whole thing is much more wide-ranging and well worth a listen.
(The line “The media the media doesn’t like to talk about” is Beattie’s, not ours.)
The anatomy of a smear 138
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December 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish Daily Mail, which alongside its Sunday sister paper is spending the festive period engaged in an “SNP BAD!” frenzy – attacking the party over everything from foxhunting to the brutal Stalinist suppression of free speech to using taxpayers’ money to send people Christmas cards – today runs the same story across a news page, a comment column and an editorial leader:
Let’s take a closer look.
BREAKING NEWS 126
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December 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Bad wolf baying 268
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December 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Christmas truce on social media ended unusually early this year as Magnus Gardham, the political editor of the Herald, filed a column which had all the hallmarks of a man who’d overdone the sprouts and redirected the usual outcome of such an error out of his mouth rather than the other end of his digestive tract.
Backed up with a series of borderline-trolling tweets from his Herald colleague David Leask (who ambitiously referred to Gardham as a “genius”), the piece triggered a mild stushie on Twitter which we fully expect to see written up in tomorrow’s papers as “VILE CYBERNATS IN ABUSE STORM”, because it’s Christmas and you’ve got to fill pages with something.
