Commenter Rab O’Ruglen doesn’t have much sympathy for the crisis afflicting the Tartan press:
While I have every sympathy for those who find themselves in employment difficulties through no fault of their own I cannot say I have any sympathy for the Scottish print medium whatsoever. If you are looking for an example of a people less well served by its press than Scotland’s, you have to go to totalitarian states to find it.
It is incredible that when the Independence movement has reached the stage of forming a government, all-be-it a minority one, that every single one of Scotland’s public prints is pro-Union. Sometimes vitriolically so. These instruments in the main for the propagation of right-wing propaganda and the Union, supposedly in support of free market forces, seem remarkably resistant to the idea that they might not be able to make a profit indefinitely out of forcing on their readers a point of view with which they do not concur.
It is incredible that when the Independence movement has reached the stage of forming a government, all-be-it a minority one, that every single one of Scotland’s public prints is pro-Union. Sometimes vitriolically so. These instruments in the main for the propagation of right-wing propaganda and the Union, supposedly in support of free market forces, seem remarkably resistant to the idea that they might not be able to make a profit indefinitely out of forcing on their readers a point of view with which they do not concur.
I know that this is a point much-cherished by many SNP supporters, who chafe at what they perceive to be the press’s bias against the party.
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