Juxtaposed with EU 52
Posted on
December 02, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘media’
The Captain’s Abyss 190
Posted on
November 30, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The realisation that the No camp’s reaction to the independence White Paper has been based on a massive, scarcely-believable misunderstanding/misrepresentation of reality has thrown a new light on all sorts of things from the past week.
The most recent “BLACK HOLE!” story is a case in point.
A tonic for the troops 125
Posted on
November 29, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As a living embodiment of the posh, braying public-school Tory-boy stereotype, Fraser Nelson of the Spectator used to reside in our “Zany Comedy Relief” links bar until we kicked him out for rarely lowering himself to write about Scotland.
But his guest appearance in today’s Telegraph we enjoyed at least parts of.
About last night 279
Posted on
November 28, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you missed it, Nicola Sturgeon’s extraordinary cross-examination demolition job on Alistair “Crybaby” Carmichael can now be seen on the STV website. And if you’re pushed for time and can’t spare the full 19 minutes, here’s the gist of it:
A touch of deja vu 70
Posted on
November 27, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you’re joining us late 73
Posted on
November 26, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you were at work when everything was happening this morning and this afternoon, here’s a one-stop catch-up guide to all the interesting media of the day.
White line fever 87
Posted on
November 26, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re still dutifully ploughing through “Scotland’s Future”, but in truth we’re not really its target audience. We’re already convinced, and much of it is just like reading our own articles back except in rather blander language. What we can definitely say for certain is that it doesn’t lack detail – the composition of an independent Scotland’s armed forces, for example, is laid out almost down to the rifle.
Naturally, that didn’t stop the No camp from rushing onto the nation’s TV screens within minutes of the press launch ending with their considered, serious and thoughtful assessments of a document none of them had read.
Scotland’s Future 253
Posted on
November 26, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may have noticed that the Scottish Government website and the scotreferendum.com one are both somewhat besieged by traffic at the moment and struggling to load. So we’ve uploaded local copies of both the full White Paper and the summary document, in “epub” format (for tablet devices and smartphones) and PDF for reading on PCs. You can find them below.
The Loch Ness Monster’s underwear 119
Posted on
November 26, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s an atrocious piece of journalism in this morning’s Guardian, and on this particular occasion we’re referring to its technical standards rather than any bias or spin. Here are the opening paragraphs:
We’re confused already.
Pay up and shut up 148
Posted on
November 25, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So today we got a response from the BBC to our Freedom Of Information request concerning this story. Those of you who’ve ever sent an FOI request to the state broadcaster before probably won’t need to read any further.
If the facts don’t fit, make up some shit 61
Posted on
November 24, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We apologise both for the slightly uncouth language in that headline and the mangling of an infamous phrase from the 1995 OJ Simpson murder trial.
But it’s hard to reasonably appraise the conduct of Scotland’s two supposed “quality” newspapers this weekend with regard to the Yes Scotland email hacking incident without using expletives, and that’s just about the mildest level of comment we could muster about the naked lies both have told the Scottish public.
If you listen, you can hear 97
Posted on
November 24, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Herald View in the Sunday Herald, 24 November 2013:
It’s nice to know that – finally – we’re not the only ones paying attention.
