The final countdown 120
Posted on
March 16, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Running total (updated daily): £28,920 of £29,796 (97.1%).
Donations in last 24 hours: £886.
Let’s get serious 247
Posted on
February 06, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So, wow. Last month we decided to kick on a little bit as an experiment and put more of our time into the site, and the results were dramatic. But the truth of the matter is that we can’t keep up that level every month, because we have to earn a living. And if a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing properly.
But here’s a thing: supporters of independence constantly and loudly bemoan the lack of a pro-independence Scottish newspaper, or even just a balanced one committed to the simple old-fashioned goals of fair-minded and truthful reporting.
The last attempt to make a print one crashed and burned a long time ago – as pointedly noted in the image above by Kerry Gill, current political editor of the Scottish Daily Express. And the online Caledonian Mercury, despite being staffed by proper experienced journalists, died (though technically its corpse still twitches faintly once in a while) through a failed funding model, having not found a high enough readership to generate sufficient advertising revenue.
The thing is, it doesn’t have to be that way.
