A wee snippet crept by most of us the other day… something that indirectly was the real reason the BBC doorstepped Dermot Desmond, something that is also the reason why David Murray was never asked to explain his , er, business practices.
Or Dave King
Desmond has a company in the Isle of Man to maximise his revenue from a company in Switzerland. Not illegal, but arguably immoral.
King has a company based in the British Virgin Islands called New Oasis, which provides soft loans to keep his Ibrox entity afloat…but no one has asked him about that.
But could all that be about to change ?
The editors of The Herald and Evening Times newspapers are to leave their posts.
Graeme Smith, who became The Herald’s 27th editor a year ago, and Graham Shields, Evening Times editor since April 2016, will quit on 22 December.
Editor-in-chief Donald Martin said both editors had been “excellent ambassadors for their respective titles, and they leave behind a solid platform for a new executive team to build on”.
He added: “As part of the changes we will be creating a new combined role of Editor of our digital brand HeraldScotland.com and Deputy Editor of The Herald. In addition, we will be recruiting a Deputy Editor to take day to day operational responsibility for the Evening Times.
“We have a superb team and I look forward to working closely with them as we rise to the challenges of delivering compelling, unique content for our audiences.ย
The two Glasgow titles have been struggling to retain both readership and credibility of late, and it may be that the owners, Newsquest Scotland, have decided to take the papers in a new direction.
In February, the BBC reported that..
The Herald fell by 10% to 28,900 average daily sales in the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) figures.ย
The Evening Times, targeting Glasgow and the west of Scotland manages to shift 23,696 copies a day on average. Which is an embarassingly low percentage of its potential reach of around one million people.
So, clearly something had to be done, and a change at the top under these circumstances usually means a change in policy.
Will they pick the right people for the job, or will they draw their appointees from among the peepil ?
There are several candidates within the mainstream Scottish media for the posts, but none of them are particularly radical enough to halt the decline and turn it around.
An editor is like a circus ringmaster, he books the acts, but should let them get on with the show, and with the right amount of trust and freedom, that show becomes one worth paying for.
At the moment, only a fool would deny there is a conservative agenda throughout the country. The way things were is the way they must be and the way they must be in the future.
We only have to look at the demise of the Murray group and its subsequent return to see that certain figures in society are untouchable.
Somehow, the idea that things must never change has become the mainstay of all newspapers, not only in business, but in politics, sport and everyday life.
Things are bad right now, but if we tighten our belts, they’ll get better ..
People don’t buy papers any more because they don’t want to read them any more.
Its actually that simple.
As a result, to survive, the papers must take on more advertising, either straightforward or subliminal, as with the advertising features that pass as news these days.
And if a company advertise with that paper, it holds a disproportionate influence on the editor, who cannot risk losing that account.
Before, a company would place an account with a paper that sold well, and paid whatever the going rate was.
Now, as papers lose credibility and sales, and as other outlets for advertising become available, the advertising revenue is dropping, and its scaring the life out of the printed news industry.
It would take a brave editor in this climate to call in his staff and tell then to publish and be damned.
It would take a brave editor to send his hacks to uncover what went on at Murray Group, for instance, or at Rangers.
But at the Herald Group that opportunity is there…
Cast you mind back to the independence referendum, and the London based papers and the BBC…
That 45% of Scots managed to withstand the combined onslaught of the mass media is remarkable and praiseworthy.
The London owned titles lied, pure and simple, in the same way that they lied about Brexit and the EU.
And most people fell for it.
They still believe what they see on television, they still believe what they read in the papers, though realy its just the old maxim of repeating something over and over until the lie becomes a truth.
With new editors on the way at two Scottish papers there is an oppurtunity to open the windows and let in a bit of fresh air.
New media has plenty of promising and brave people who have chosen a different career path, and its only a perceived lack of credibility that is preventing a mass takeover of the old news establishment.
A change in direction by the two Glasgow titles, a willingness to report the facts, whoever they may upset, would see sales increase, it would see advertisers demand a place on their pages, and above all, it would spark a change in the fourth estate, at least in Scotland, that would make in society who hold a position of responsibility accountable for their actions.
Thats why we have newspapers.
Thats why its time for change, and a new direction.
Digital media is all well and good, but whilst the papers may see increased “clicks 2 on their articles, its only articles, and not the full newspaper, which should be produced as a whole, and not a collection of parts.
It’s what editors do, they put a narrative and a theme throughout each issue every day, and the reader can them see a bigger picture than he can by dabbling in just the stories that interest him.
One of the reasons politicians, for instance are getting away with so much these days is that few people “click ” on thise stories, and, of course, not enough are buying the papers or responding to editorial comment to make the issue worth pursuing.
That needs to change.
The Herald Group has that chance.
Don’t blow it.
This time there will be no way back.
Noal Noal the angels did sing, gone is the KING,
of the Midden on the Hill,
But as for the midden writers…hell mend them and RIH.
When you sup with the devil, you get your just….deserts.
Caption, The fool on the hill, sees the World crumbling down, 2017 will be a very….good year, with plenty to cheer and to eat plenty of jelly and ice cream.
Roll on the demise of the Midden and all who cling to her.
The very name, newspaper is a misnomer. By the time it’s in print, it’s old. Owned and ran by people who had the bright idea of publishing everything on the internet for free and then scratching their collective heads when sales of the paper version fell off the cliff. They’ve all turned their attention to fleecing their ever dwindling target audience by giving them what they want to read, rather than what they should be reading. Hence guys like Jack and Lindsay churn it out for their captive audience to froth over and lap up.
I wouldn’t take a U.K. “newspaper” for free anymore.
They don’t even wrap chips in an old newspaper anymore. They’re good for hee-haw.
Pedantry alert, weren’t “news” paper called thus because of North South East West paper.
Anyhoo Logic totally agree wi yer points. Ah check on line british newspapers and it is shite. Then again so are the Sydney based papers: garbage.
Right then, anyone wanting ti see Paul ‘England Legend’ Gascoigne here is Sydney Jan 7th for ‘VIP’ price of $177?
Didn’t think so.
Canny see him even making the journey but ah bet a few Sydney huns scoop the tickets up. MUGS.
Excellent piece. Here’s hoping you are correct and that Donald Martin seizes the opportunity to increase sales, and credibility,by appointing the incoming deputy editors with a view to exposing the lies, and printing only the truth (however unpalatable to sections of the community).
Day after day, alone on his hill,
the man with the foolish grin,
is keeping perfectly still.
But the fool on the hill,
sees his sun going down,
and the eyes in his head,
sees his World spinning around.
The King is in his parlour counting all his honey,
but all the bread is gone including all his money.
No one in Scotland will ask the hard questions of ” rangers “, David Murray or any other cunt associated to them.
Churnalists in Scotland live in fear of the Klan, it’s that simple, threats, death threats, bombs and bullets?
That could never happen in Scotland could it?
However if this football scandal had been Celtic, we would already be stripped of titles and anything else that could be fucking stripped, there would be a Daly programme ( see what i did there) at 1pm with live updates about every fucking detail of it.
This is Scotland, it’s Orange, it’s Masonic, it’s pro- ” rangers “, it’s bigoted, it’s racist & it’s fucking sectarian!
The whole fucking sham runs very deep here, corrupt to the fucking core!
The only place these fucks can be defeated is ON the park, a winning Celtic hurts these cunts on an industrial scale, that is why our focus should be ON the park.
NO paper or Journalist in Scotland will call it how it is OUT OF FEAR, it’s simple!
If they want someone to ask the real questions maybe they should offer the position to Phil Mcghiollabhain!
Ooh aah!
Spot on Monti ma man. More eloquently put than anything I could have mustered.
Cheers Albert kidd!
Really Albert…..Really? I hear that specsavers has a sale…on. ๐
Shut your puss you ya fanny ๐
your spot on Monti….fear and intimidation is their weapon.
the sad truth is that the majority of Scots are decent people but do fear the klan…..how can we stop this ?….time for brave men and woman to stand up and not bend or give in to them….you will probably find that its empty threats….sending death threats or bullets in the post is just cowardly but when has anyone actually been killed ???
the only ones who do get physically abused is their wifes!!!
Harvey Weinstein, Dustin Hoffmann & Kevin Spacey, walk into an Irish theme bar in New york.
Bartender say’s-” Oh no, not Yewtree again.
oooh Jesus that’s bad ๐
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I accept the premise that most Scottish football journalists adopt a pro-sevco stance. That goes for print and broadcast. Where we part company is that there are noble inkies that will ride to the rescue. As prostitutes wear short skirts to attract custom so titles (see the Daily Mail) adopt editorial that engenders the greatest sales. So in country where Neil Lennon was booed almost everywhere for being Irish and not browbeaten there is no chance of a paper taking on the establishment.
This was my rant on the subject of Minty…
https://carljunglebhoy.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/transparency-of-purpose/
Excellent piece Carl, very informative and very well written, I wonder if anyone would publish it? No-chance.
Cheers Guys!
CarljungleBhoy,
In the voice & words of Borat ” Nice “
BTW That was written back in September when Milne from Aberdeen/SFA played the old “nothing to see here” card in response to Celtics call for an independent review of the LNS/EBT sham. I bumped it back up to highlight the hypocrisy of Mark Daly door-stepoing Desmond
Dermot should have asked him in for a bowl of Ice cream n Jelly ๐
Outstanding,bud!
The Scottish media has lost its biggest audience in the main, because of Celtics success on the park, no success for der Hun means that they will not in the main pay for arse wipes when their glory days are gone.
For years now Celtic supporters have stopped in the main buying newspapers because they know their agenda, why would we when we know that agenda is to criticise Celtic and is devoid of any honest reporting.
Its the same on the Celtic News sites, you quickly separate the sites that are supportive and the ones that have a biased agenda.
Sky has also I believe, peaked, with BT. entering the fray and other forms of channels or streaming. I’m with Lenny-bhoy in that an awful lot of the EPL games are….Dire, I wouldn’t watch them if they paid ME.
The only thing that irks me about the media is that Celtic as a club seem to accept all forms of retaliation from different forms of media and never seems to…respond. How I long for the day when we do.
The BBC’s teletext service…..”Rangers” Jack and fellow midfielder Christie of Aberdeen are among eight uncapped players in the Scottish squad. Its minute details like that, the subtle way that he presents his information, like burying Celtics C.L. games at the very end of the title’s and the scores, how he always puts out any information on the hun to make them look….relevant.
I feel his pain,
but I’m singing, just singing,
at his painnnn.
Newsquest tend to promote from within,with a strict remit on editorial policy. That is directed from national HQ in Weybridge.
It’s a strict management of decline strategy,one which has been a manifest failure throughout their regional operations.
Don’t expect The Herald to buck that trend.
Ralph. – Have you thought of applying for that Herald job yourself? Might be less a breath of fresh air than aroma of pish stained tramp ๐ but if it’s a change of direction they want, somebody willing to take on the blue-nosed media mafia would do it.
BTW I work in publishing and I genuinely think that there’s a gap in the market in Scotland for a proper hard-hitting left of centre & pro independence newspaper in Scotland not scared to tackle investigative journalism worthy of the name.
Carl,
I’ll do the door supervisor position!
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For once I’m in agreement with Monti.
Must have forgotten to take my medicine.
Once? Pish ๐
Must be….magic mushrooms. ๐
I heard..no…i know you are fond of the Mushroom ๐
Yes on a plate beside a BIG steak and….chips. ๐
Great article also superb add on features by Monti and others, I echo the comments that I long for the day when CFC actually take a real stand against some of these bigots that mask themselves as media experts.
Robert,
Cheers man!
The odd thing is Celtic should be throwing it’s weight at these cunts, the SFA, the media and at press conferences held at the park.
How fucking hard is it to tell the assembled pile of press shit, ask one single fucking question about the dead club & you’re out the fucking door, and you won’t be back.
Surely that’s easy?
Clamp down on these fucks!
I agree with Monti……………Wow.
I was staggered that they reached 45 but that’s because they ignored the difficult questions and just shouted BRIT in yer face.
Nae borders not more CSC.
Scots Nats want out of UK
English Nats want BREXIT
A plague on both their hooses.
and i will shout it again!! if you voted to stay in the uk then you are a brit…..we would have got over 50% had it not been for all the lies and fear stories……..to be on the same side as the huns ??? no fucking chance…
Bawsman,
No need for the ” Wow “…
You either agree or dinnae!
Thanks tho
And King wants oot of Ipox, Like America out of Vietnam, peace with.. honour, that’s right GLIB…gies peace.
Bawsman…you better start taking your meds….every day. ๐
I’ve quoted this one before but it always comes to mind when discussing the media: ‘There’s no need to bribe the British journalist for seeing what the man will do quite unbribed there’s no occasion to.’
i stopped buying papers years ago because of the anti Celtic agenda behind every story about us and also their political views too.
the papers are shooting themselves in the foot because, as we all know Glasgow is green and white and the vast majority are Celtic fans and we wont buy their papers.
the reason is fear and also control buy the bosses who have a hatred for Celtic but when push comes to shove they have to make money so they will have to change their agenda or go bust
Ewanbhoy,
I remember i used to deliver to John Menzies in Glasgow, in the early to mid 90’s, the wee guy who took the deliveries in was a Celtic man.
He told me each day he would rip out the sports pages of the DR and leave the rest of the paper in the canteen lol. Quality.
Also remember the cow at the Sheriff court who had her Huns calendar up beside her Queen portrait…..
Let’s just say her delivery was always short & damaged ๐
Cunt!
Would love to see her pus these days! ๐
Just her….pus?
..and tax returns:)
way back in the day when i grew up in glasgow all my neighbours were Celtic fans and obviously everyone at my school were Celtic fans(corpus christi bhoy), it was only when i moved to Dunoon that i first ever met a rangers supporter which was a shock to the system lol
ewan I went to the zoo….a lot. ๐
Mike,
How did it feel everyone staring and pointing at you?
” mummy mummy, what’s that thing with the big nose called “?
Well how does it feel? you know, when the weans look at you and shout…..look mum its Mr. Blobby.
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Ewanbhoy,
I bet the cunt had a limp, squint or had one tooth?
The change of editors is a inevitable result of people deciding to get their news eleswhere. Interesting thing here is that the anti Celtic anti Irish narrative has led to decreasing circulation. We can conclude that this narrative has failed. Now the editors who pursued it are getting the sack. I wonder if the new editors may want to try and even handed approach and see if their circulation rises on the back of even handed professional journalism? Perhaps the first sports article could be a close examination of the whole sporting scandal which still sits unresolved and unexamined. The story we all watched unfold in 2012.
Change of editors?
deckchairs Titanic.
Evening little Enos…..
BTW # 147.6 Anybody who missed that classic episode when “Henrik Larsson” won BBC1’s Pointless – its repeated again tonight
Nice idea but dream on as they say. The Establishment has too much to lose to allow element of the media a free hand.
Not so much to do with the โestablishmentโ and more do do with circulation, advertising and profits. When profits fall shareholders get agitated and so change is required. They know that their narrative and reporting to date has resulted in declining sales and I imagine less advertising, less revenue and as a result less profit. So a new narrative is required which appeals to a larger potential audience so that they buy more papers. What will that be? This is less dreaming and more looking at what narrative will best sell papers to more people resulting in more revenue and profit for the shareholders.
Ken Diddly Dodd celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday..a we sample.
My dad knew I was gonny be a comedian, when I was born he said…is this a joke.
Did you hear about the shrimp that went to the prawns cocktail party…he pulled a mussel.
So it turns out that if you bang two halves of a horse together, it doesn’t make the sound of a coconut.
I told the HMRC that I didn’t owe them a penny, cos I staid beside the..sea.
I haven’t spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months. I didn’t like to interrupt her.
Five-thirds of people have trouble understanding fractions.
She was a big-girl..she could stir fry a leg of lamb. She tried a “speak your weight” machine, it said…..to be continued.
I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.
How do you make a blonde laugh on a sunday, tell her a joke on a Wednesday.
Just read a book about Stockholm Syndrome- it started of badly, but by the end….I really liked it.
How many men does it take to change a toilet roll? Nobody knows-its never been tried before. HAHAHA he cracks me up, the best comic ever.
Laurel & Hardy for me……Genius shit!
have yoos no heard ae harold lloyd
https://youtu.be/rhNtSU8ubf0
Charlie,
I think he’s an annoying cunt!
Charlie..yi know Harold only had one hand? Gen up. still did aw his own stunts. Don’t often ask for requests but the one when the barn falls on him is quality. Nae digital crap. Wee Harold took aw the risks.
Cheers Mike.
Am a Tommy Cooper man masel.
Stoned in the Dam…” Just like that “
Q. What’s twelve inches long & snaps a cunt?
A. A selfie stick.
111111
It’s 2 after 1
this wee guy is going places
https://youtu.be/bniI8NUwoRU
https://youtu.be/OsYWy-5C3RE
Whit happened to talking about Celtic?
I don’t need lectured on Scottish Independence, nor do I need to hear more shit on the” 45%” and their paranoia
“their” paranoia…..are you bitter against the 45% ?….may i ask why ? i am sure you must still be thrilled to have kept the union alive and well and have the union jack still stamped all over Scotland….well done
Ewan
You and I voted differently on a very closely fought and very important issue, but this isn’t the place we should be trying to discuss it.
Poor old Theresa, up shit creek without a Patel.
Try the veal.
“They still believe what they see on television, they still believe what they read in the papers”.
What, a shape-shifting space alien doesn’t travel the galaxy in an old police phone box saving us all from obliteration at the hands of evil wrongdoers?
The badly drawn pig and her family that are now a multi-billion pound industry are not real?
Rainjurs didn’t die, they only had a wee bit financial difficulty and were relegated by those nasty obsessed Jhungle Jhims?
FFS Ralph, talk about shattering illusions!
Who would have thunk it, well last season its mooted that Celtic played better in general than this season, but the performance against The Dandy Dons was the best we have played this year.
Its really been hampered this season due to defensive injuries, the centre-backs in particular, so its likely that we should bring in another centre-back in January. That is the only part of the first team squad that has been weak, the rest of the squad has been settled and the same players have been utilised in some sort of rotation to keep up with injuries, number of games including Internationals. Its clear that Brendan likes to play with a squad that he can rotate with the same group of players. Me…well I want to see a bit more of Kouassi Eboue he likes a tackle and though he is still young, I like the cut of his jib. Also much as I like Griff. its great to see Dembelle back, if we get into the Europa League his skill and physicality will help the team…big style.
Along with a settled back four should see an improvement in the team so aid European results. One big positive is to see the Scottish players improve due to the..Brendan effect, to see the players re-energised under his manager-ship is brilliant. Will we see young Ralston play more games when he recovers from injury, I think we will although its gonny be hard for him to take Lustigs place. So a great deal to look forward to and International breaks are….mince.
Will pressure build on the SFA to…investigate, will Sevco survive, will Mike ever get his leg over ever again, who kens but if you don’t ask….you don’t get…God loves a trier.
God bless the Celtic!
Really can they read or is it just the pictures that gain their attention, pictures of Willy, made my heart go rapidly.
A man on a horse,
made them sound really course,
a man with a magic hat,
that kept them underground, (that’s where they should be)
nobody understands them, no one really cares,
but those fools on the hill,
are going right through the mill.
Craig Whyte and Greenie closed down their shop.
They didn’t want to but they had to stop
paying plumbers and face painters and other payees
with Moonbeam’s collection of old EBTs.
Bad Captain Tax man had forced them to quit
and the suits? They grew tired of shovelin’ shit
Whyte wore his best suit of funeral black,
walked straight round the corner…and never came back.
(remember ‘Pressed Rat and Warthog’ by the Cream)
Jack Bruce, RIP
Just read the comments in defence of Celtic and Scottish football in general from Chris Sutton as a rebuke to the inane slabberings of Tony Cascarino and Joey Barton. I’m ALMOST loving Sutton as a pundit as much as I did him as a Celtic player.
Folks, have read this site for a long time now and have always enjoyed the points of view on offer. I have to say that Montis posts early in this thread are amongst the truest I have ever read about this corrupt cesspool of a country. God Bless the Celtic.
John,
Where’s the charity money?
FC dignity steal from the public purse, they steal from the nurses, their armed forces, hospitals & schools….they steal charity money.
They even steal water.
But put on a navy cardigan and a pair of brown brogues and all is well.
Fuckin raze it now!
Mark Verruca, surely.
Yep Bunionbrian
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BBC Scotland with its bigoted narrative,
The Scottish Mainstream Media with its one club only narrative, do they no like us, have we done something wrong, are they cross with us,
what did we diddly do to offend them. Questions, Questions, Questions.
Where has all the fitba. gone,
gone to graveyards every one,
when will they ever learn,
when will they ever….learn never to play friendly Internationals.
As i said,Celtic’s continued success ON the park brings untold misery to many here in Scotland, long, long may that continue!
Weered,….We shall overcome, or mibbee just come, that would confound them, a bit like the North, out-grow them with numbers, we have well outgrown them intellectually. So…more babies and more success on the park. Don’t watch them, don’t buy their newspapers, do not support them..in any way.
This is our time, our success on the park, making more cash through the C.L.
Here’s tae us, whaw’s like us.
Someday our Prince will come….HAHAHA and when he does, we shall over-come, but Haw wait a mineet he has come, he is the Prince of Carnlough, did I tell yous that I was descended from Irish Royalty, well that’s what my Da telt me, either that or a Gobbylin naw Gobbylin
that title belongs to the Edinburgh fruitcake that calls itsell Monti.
Big of pus and very small in the bedroom department if you ken what I mean. Naebody’s perfect.
Where’s it Gonny be….Ipox, Celtic Park or Murrayfield or stay at Hampdump and pay…ยฃ800,000.thousand pounds annually, I have my thoughts, is it gonny be ..Ipox with the cretin that calls the SFA shots a known Hun..lover, well I wouldn’t bet against it, Celtic Park, don’t think so, cos the bealers at Ipox would rail against it.
Mibbee the SFA go to Ipox and repair it while the dafties go to Hampdump for…free, a nice wee masonic swap.
Well it should go to….Murrrayfield or stay where it is, a neutral venue, we will find out soon.
If I could walk ten thousand miles,
DA DA DADDA…it wid be a fuckin miracle.
Mind Mike..Its “lets all move on” time…
it will be a carve up rotation between Tynecastle, Pittodrie, Easter Road and ibrox…Celtic Park will be deemed “pitch used too often” or some traffic issues pish no doubt
Excellent Ref in the NI v Switzerland game, clear penalty kick all day long.
Well done the ref!
Think i’ll buy a Toblerone today….mmm nom nom