The Legacy 234
Posted on
December 21, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Iain Macwhirter in “Disunited Kingdom” (Cargo Publishing, 8 December 2014):
It’s a difficult assessment to dispute.
Archive for the ‘media’
An economy with the truth 141
Posted on
December 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
By now readers will probably be familiar with STV News reporter Stephen Daisley’s superbly withering review of Alan Cochrane’s referendum diaries. One quote from the book aroused particular interest:
According to Cochrane, the Canadian economist told the First Minister: ‘I’m only here for one day, Alex, but don’t f— with me or I’ll be up here a lot more often.’“
But did that really happen?
It could be worse 113
Posted on
December 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s only one person on Earth currently more hated by The Sun than Russell Brand (against whom it runs a substantial attack piece roughly every other day), and that’s Vladimir Putin. So the paper’s been almost as delighted by the recently plummeting oil price as Scottish Labour and Tory MSP Murdo Fraser, because it can revel in the trouble the collapse causes Putin.
Today its main politics lead is a full-on gloat about the dreadful state Russia is in at the moment, giving up half a page to an eye-catching graphic.
It must be hoping people don’t look at those numbers too closely.
Inching towards the truth 321
Posted on
December 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We remain perplexed, readers, by the apparent total lack of interest in the mainstream Scottish media about how many members the Scottish Labour “party” has.
Membership levels are a topical subject in the light of the extraordinary explosion in SNP and Green membership after the referendum, and with a general election just months away in which the make-up of Westminster’s 59-strong Scottish contingent could be crucial to the shape of UK politics for the next five years.
The number of members the main Unionist party north of the border can call on to knock doors and deliver leaflets will therefore be a very significant factor in the outcome. Yet on this morning’s Sunday Politics, when presented with an ideal and pertinent opportunity to question new Scottish “leader” Jim Murphy on the subject, Gordon Brewer didn’t even try to ask. What’s with that?
A number of complaints 82
Posted on
December 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Just keeping you in the loop, readers.
In with a bullet 186
Posted on
December 08, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The latest sales figures for newspapers in Scotland are out today, most of them showing the now-traditional hefty year-on-year declines. (The Scottish Daily Express was the biggest loser, shedding a hefty 14% of its readership in the last 12 months, with the Guardian, Daily Mirror and Daily Record close behind.)
What the stats throw into striking relief, though, is the pent-up demand for a Yes-supporting paper. Despite having been created in just three weeks on a shoestring budget and not being distributed by some of the biggest supermarket chains, The National – on the worst day so far recorded for its sales – would nevertheless crash straight into the chart in seventh place, already neck-and-neck with its 231-year-old sister paper The Herald and just a few thousand behind the Star and the Express.
The full ordered table is below.
MP For Vendetta 205
Posted on
December 07, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve noted on a number of occasions that the BBC is fond of using the late-night papers review show on the News channel as a sneaky little Nat-bashing section in which London-based broadsheet journalists (always, always Unionists) get to display the full depth of their arrogant cluelessness about Scottish politics.
Last night’s, however, was quite something even by the usual standards.
The definition of redundancy 236
Posted on
December 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ladies and gentlemen, it gives us great pleasure today to present to you the most unnecessary words ever printed in the history of Scottish political journalism.
On current polling, it won’t be long before Ms Curran emulates her script.
A lucky escape 104
Posted on
December 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The lie and the truth 72
Posted on
December 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Daily Record, 27 November 2014:
So, IS the Scottish Government budget going to “nearly double”?
A letter to the editor 234
Posted on
December 02, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…of the Press & Journal.
The conclusion not arrived at 114
Posted on
December 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s a curious column in today’s Scottish Sun on the subject of the Smith Commission. We’re going to have to quote quite a large chunk of it to make our point.
