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Why it Can Only be the Capital for Creative Scotland
June 5, 2007 · No comments
The old music-hall clich
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SNP Newspaper? Why not The Herald?May 23, 2007 · No comments
Sorry to be the bearer of gloomy opinion, but this rumour about a nationalist paper...
Latest PCC Report Fails Own AmbitionMay 21, 2007 · No comments
In his recent Annual Report, Press Complaints Commission chair, Sir Christopher Meyer, asserted “the near...
For Spanish eyes onlyMay 17, 2007 · No comments
SPIKE doffs its three-cornerned hat to yesterday and today’s Herald newspaper, for its reaching out...
Photography is Dead, Long Live the Happy SnapMay 10, 2007 · No comments
Photography is surviving by becoming less and less noticeable. That is not to say there...
Blogging and the Scottish ElectionMay 3, 2007 · No comments
Deciphering the daily minutiae of the Scottish parliament election campaign is a labour of love...
SNP and the NewspapersMay 1, 2007 · No comments
The first lesson of journalism is that hacks don’t matter as much as they like...
Newspapers: Foreign News in the British PressApril 27, 2007 · No comments
When I arrived in Glasgow last September, a German student on a post-graduate journalism course,...
Reporting the Virginia KillerApril 23, 2007 · No comments
What a pity the Daily Mirror of the 18th of this month made the same...
Newspapers and the SNPApril 16, 2007 · No comments
Why does every newspaper want to alienate nationalist readers? I struggle to find a rag...
Newspapers: The Sunday Mail and MacNeilApril 12, 2007 · No comments
As a friend, I was appalled to learn after Sabbath morning sermon of Angus MacNeil’s...
Newspapers: The Herald Budget CutsApril 11, 2007 · No comments
You have to ask what was so attractive about The Herald group of newspapers –...
Film: Being a Film Critic in ScotlandApril 11, 2007 · No comments
I was recently invited to speak at Glasgow University’s new course on film journalism, where...
Hacks Playing Politics Soil JournalismMarch 6, 2007 · No comments
On Sunday, a newspaper ran a story that Scotland was heavily subsidised by England. It...
Newspapers: Time for the PCC to Get ToughJanuary 30, 2007 · No comments
The News of the World’s Royal Correspondent gets four months in jail and his editor...
Pay it Again, SamJanuary 24, 2007 · No comments
It was film mogul, Sam Goldwyn, who said: “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper...
General Media: A Case for Reforming the BBC Licence FeeJanuary 19, 2007 · No comments
The licence fee dispute highlighted the flawed political status of the BBC and, regardless of...
Newspapers: When Silence Might Well be GoldenJanuary 12, 2007 · No comments
When the late Ken Gallagher, some years ago, warned – from the top table at...
Newspapers: The New Privacy TrapJanuary 8, 2007 · No comments
Privacy will replace libel as newspapers’ main legal problem this year. Last year’s defamation actions...
Newspapers: The Future is Free, the Future is BrokeJanuary 5, 2007 · No comments
The future is free. The future is broke. The Record’s decision to make its PM...