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Published Date: 19 May 2008
By Ian Stewart
TRICKY business, change. A widely held view is that people don't like change and are resistant to it. It alters comfort zones and people can feel like they are losing something they have become familiar with. But it is impossible to improve anything without changing it.
Society is geared towards improvement and, therefore, is constantly changing. The whole theory of evolution is about change to adapt to better fit into the world in which we live. And today, The Scotsman has made some changes.

I know some people w...



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  • Last Updated: 19 May 2008 11:18 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Ian Stewart
 
1

Charles Linskaill,

Edinburgh 19/05/2008 00:35:37

Sorry not this weekend, we don't often purchase your paper anyhow, I mean 'who wants to construct a tent' as your paper was, everyday, its not 1890 you know!

However Mr 'Hootsman Tootsman' I will look out for your new paper the next time I purchase the 'Daily Star'

"Daily Star"!! ??..('shock horror')

Well OK! I gotta keep up with all the 'Gos' aswell you know!

:D
2

glassbenmhor,

19/05/2008 06:31:10
Now all you need is un-biased Liebour journalism!
3

glassbenmhor,

19/05/2008 06:32:43
Aye ,the times they are a-changing,

and not just your front page, Scotsman,

Ah ha ha ha!
4

Guga II,

Rockall 19/05/2008 10:42:32
As pointed out by #2, the Hootsmon badly needs to curb their card carrying, fully paid up members of the New Labour Sleaze and Corruption Party (North British Branch) journalists.

Criticise political parties, by all means, but only where they merit it and not because of the political slant of a goodly number of your journalists. Be fair, and tell the truth, not some politically distorted or politically correct "truth".

Stop attacking the SNP at every opportunity, again for no reason other than some of your biased journalists, and stop distorting anything to do with the people of Scotland that want their country to be free.

Make your journalists and sub-editors take a course on Scotland, the Scottish people, Scottish culture and Scottish history. That way we may see fewer mistakes than have been more common of late (e.g. "The Catholic Church of Scotland", and the "Lord Pesident" rather than the Lord Justice General presiding at the High Court of the Justiciary). We know that a very high percentage of your staff are English, including your Editor, but that is no excuse for such apparent ignorance of Scotland.

Stop disallowing comments on so many articles. I can understand not allowing them on court cases which are still sub-judice (in Scotland), but for no other reason. I have noticed that your Pravda Branch and Xinhua Branch censors have been using a little more common sense of late, but they can still be very heavy handed at times for no apparent, or good, reason.
5

Guga II,

Rockall 19/05/2008 10:49:52
Incidentally, the reason I will not be buying a copy of Scotland on Sunday today (yes, today, that's life in this part of the world), is that I wish to avoid the nausea I would undoubtedly suffer from because of Eddie Barnes' biased articles in it.
6

donald anderson it's me,

weegieland 19/05/2008 12:03:17
AND STILL THE ANGLOCENTRIC MEEJAH IN SCOTLAND WONDERS WHY IT IS GETTINGT BUM'S RUSH.
7

Dr. James Wilkie,

Vienna 19/05/2008 15:24:57
A statesman is one who makes the event, and doesn't simply react to it. That could apply just as much to journalism, of which I also have some personal experience. When The Scotsman is seen to be out ahead of the pack with advanced ideas, and demonstrating that it can identify and interpret the strategic trend of events, instead of trying to act as a ball and chain on a movement that can no longer be stopped, for what reason is best known to itself, then people will support it.

Sadly, the intellectual level of its comment on current affairs is all too often personally and politically biased, weak and supine. I agree with #4 about the obvious dearth of knowledge of Scotland, its topography, history and culture, among the Scotsman staff. The examples are too numerous to list - e.g. you see news items referring to "the High Court", without an explanation that it refers to an English civil court and not the Scottish High Court of Justiciary. Send them all back to school to learn about Scotland!

As a former editor I know that it's the substance that matters, not the layout. When The Scotsman is once again leading opinion, in a positive and not negative manner, then it will flourish again. And I will be the first to congratulate it.


 

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