Take my breath away 143
Posted on
May 02, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Just magnificent work from the Daily Mail today.
Really only a couple of tiny quibbles.
Archive for the ‘media’
Little lies 107
Posted on
April 30, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish independence debate is characterised by so many gigantic lies from the No camp and the media (no pound, international outcast, bankrupt, cataclysm, etc etc) that there’s rarely time to pick up on all the small, casual, offhand ones that also litter the news-stands and the airwaves and poison any hope of intelligent discourse.
So let’s make an effort with one, just by way of example.
More crowdfunding required 87
Posted on
April 30, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Can we please buy the Telegraph a new picture to depict “Scottish people”?
The headline ferret 120
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April 29, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers will be familiar with a phenomenon we often like to highlight in these pages – that of the dramatic newspaper headline which rapidly turns into something completely different by the time you read the text of the story.
There’s an especially fine example in today’s Telegraph.
This, that and the other 329
Posted on
April 26, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We don’t exactly have high expectations when it comes to the Daily Mail.
But a piece in today’s edition is despicable even for them.
This is how dumb 126
Posted on
April 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
… they think you are.
(UK edition on the left, Scottish edition on the right.)
An embarrassment to journalism 136
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April 17, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish media displays such a remarkable uniformity of thought when it comes to the independence debate that you’d think it’d be the easiest thing in the world for them to at least all get their story straight when they launch a smear campaign against a prominent Yes figure.
That, however, would presuppose that they weren’t also incompetent.
Votes of No confidence 119
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April 16, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
“Sod it”, we thought, “let’s compile a list after all“.
Clearly we’re not impartial judges of how the No campaign is being conducted. To assess its performance with any degree of fairness, we must instead take the widest possible sample of opinion from those on its own side. Here goes, then.
A period of silence 141
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April 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve just been watching the latest of the BBC’s big independence referendum debates, and we’d like the hour of our life we wasted back, please.
It wasn’t as though it was the worst we’ve seen by a long chalk. It was, if nothing else, relatively even-tempered, helped by some firm moderation by James Cook. Lesley Riddoch was as reliable, sensible and on top of the facts as she always is (although even we’re starting to get fed up of hearing her go on about Norway all the time). And while Brian Wilson is a dishonest and bilious wee nyaff, he does have the one huge saving grace that he isn’t Anas Sarwar.
But tell us this, readers – what was the point of it all?
Quoted for truth #49 136
Posted on
April 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Matthew Norman in the Independent, 15 April 2014:
We could hardly have put it better. Long may it continue.
Idiot shortage averted 129
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April 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Readers who may have been alarmed that the Scotsman hadn’t run any Michael Kelly columns for a while can breathe a sigh of relief this morning, as the role of “clueless idiot blithely spouting inflammatory and wrong-headed drivel about sectarianism and independence” is clearly in safe hands.
Keep ’em coming 189
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April 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We didn’t do a stats post at the start of April (still just under 4m pageviews a month, if you’re curious) but when someone tweeted these figures this morning we thought they were worth a wee toot, because they’re more than just nice news for us.
They’re from the independent web-traffic analysis site Alexa.com, and they detail the relative rankings for the seven biggest dedicated Scottish politics sites on the web.
