Month: October 2014
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Crisis in the Scottish media: finding the phoenix
The Scottish media is in crisis. Except for the Sunday Herald (exceptional for other reasons too) every national newspaper has seen dramatic falls in circulation in recent years. They have become machines for reprinting corporate and political press releases, stripped of journalistic resource and critical analysis. BBC Scotland has been under relentless attack, quietly from…
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What Scotland Looks Like Now
After the Referendum: A Gazetteer for Scottish NGOs For Scottish civil society two weeks ago was day zero of our political calendar. Two weeks later the impact of the referendum campaign and the result is becoming clearer. The result has set the platform for political campaigning in Scotland for years to come. We need to…