Comments on: Unconvinced by The Scottish Standard

By: bill

bill — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:55:40 +0000

I have just received the Scottish Standard and it is a wonderful read. Well done guys. At last !!

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:43:45 +0000

Ah, seems as though it just got held up in the spam moderation queue. Sorry about that.

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:36:25 +0000

Stuart: Yeah, I should really check those links more often. A lot of them are prone to going AWOL, never to come back.

Simon: Okay, sorry about that. I’ll really have to look into it now. Unfortunately I’m not feeling too great today, but hopefully I can get it sorted over the weekend.

By: The Skakagrall

The Skakagrall — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:17:17 +0000

Scottish Standard

A new pro-independence weekly Scottish newspaper called the Scottish Standard was published today. The print run is 50,000. I haven’t seen it yet but I gather it is in a compact/tabloid format, aimed at the middle of the market, and broadly suppo…

By: Simon Holledge

Simon Holledge — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:08:00 +0000

Duncan, I also wanted to send you a trackback but the link above doesn’t work for me.

By: Stuart Dickson

Stuart Dickson — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:49:04 +0000

Edit:

Duncan,

I have been very naughty and nicked your excellent “Blog resources” HTML, lock-stock-and-barrel. I know, slapped wrist should ensue.

So, just to say thanks! and I hope you don’t mind.

Note: blitzg seem to have adopted a Dead Parrot position.
Blogsnob now appears to be redirected to Pheedo.
One of the others was Over Bandwidth - just like you - hopefully only temporarily.

By: Stuart Dickson

Stuart Dickson — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:20:31 +0000

No. Nor, in a way, is Murdoch himself - he took US citizenship in 1985.

The “Scottish” Sun is very clearly controlled by US and English interests. Its “Scottishness” is only partial (some journalists, printing etc). The Scottish editorial team get a lot of pressure and interference from outwith Scotland. If they did not then you would see a very different publication.

If you would like an example, try typing “The Scottish Sun” into the Google search engine.

Result: http://www.thesun.co.uk/

ie. The English Sun

Edit: No. Because I realised that you had already linked to me in both this and the Formula One articles, so Tracking Back would have been a bit pointless.

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 22:41:09 +0000

So is, for instance, The Sun an Australian paper?

Edit: By the way, did you ever try to get the trackback to work again?

By: Stuart Dickson

Stuart Dickson — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:09:57 +0000

“I really don’t think that people think…”

The Daily Record and The Scotsman are much more “non-Scottish” than people realise. He who pays the piper calls the tune.

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:08:03 +0000

I wasn’t referring to the paper’s slogan, but the quote which I also put in my post. Exactly, it says that it is “the only truly Scottish newspaper choice.”

And as I said in my post, I really don’t think that people think of the Daily Record, The Scotsman etc. as non-Scottish, as the quote implies. It just doesn’t wash.