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Readers' Ombudsman: Look on the bright side of page 3 – in terms of colour and content



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Published Date: 16 June 2008
By Ian Stewart
SOMETIMES we forget to question the way we do things. We just carry on doing what we do in the accepted orthodoxy. Luckily, we have readers who question the way we do things. Jenny MacLaren wrote in to give some feedback on the changes we have made to the paper, and brought up an issue that is in the changed paper but was also a feature of the paper before the revamp.
"My only quibble is the habit of continuing the front page story on page 4. Page 2 is an index but why not continue what is presumably the most important article on page 3?" she wrote.

"Is the reader meant to ignore pages 2 and 3 to continue the m...



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  • Last Updated: 15 June 2008 9:16 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Ian Stewart
 
1

Sierra Foothills Scot,

Diamond Springs 16/06/2008 06:03:37
Unfortunately The Scotsman is increasingly more style than substance. Too many items of national (meaning Scottish) interest are superficial, poorly written, have misleading or completely wrong headlines,or/and written by people who are unfamiliar with Scottish law, geography, and terminology.
2

Sierra Foothills Scot,

Diamond Springs 16/06/2008 06:20:37
A good example of the Scotsman's anglicization appears in the letter from Hamish Scot in today's issue:
"Another example of "the visceral overreaction against distinctively Scots words" referred to by IWD Forde (Letters, 13 June) is the increasing tendency to call the Firth of Forth the Forth Estuary. There is no practical need for this."

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Dr. James Wilkie,

Vienna 16/06/2008 09:06:09
I agree with the above commentator. The creeping anglicisation of The Scotsman has been obvious for a long time. Far too many of its journalists and contributors demonstrate a totally inadequate grasp of the Scottish background, whether topography, history, culture, law, etc. One would imagine that the first qualification for appointment to a national newspaper would be an encyclopaedic knowledge of the country in all its aspects. Furthermore, censoring stories like the recent reports of upgraded forecasts of the oil reserves - reports that have been published all over England - are all the more ominous because the entire Scottish media seems to have been subject to a central clamp-down on the issue. It is editorial (or proprietorial) policy that is ruining this once-great newspaper, and no amount of cosmetic tinkering will save it until that is addressed.

 

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