Monday 5 November 2007

Campagning journalism? Aye right!

I had to laugh.

Last week's Scotsman...trumpeting its success as Richard Lochhead (who he?) calls for a report on the health of Scotland's fish, animal and maritime plant stocks...all down to the Scotsman's 'Save our Seas' campaign.

A triumph for campaigning journalism? Aye right!

Or maybe just a friendly SNP candidate/deputy editor with the right ministerial contacts who sits down and connives at a wheeze that let's the once peerless national newspaper kid its readers that it's still setting the national(ist) agenda and let's a pretendy trendy 'environmental secretary' improve his 'green' (or is it 'blue) credentials to draw the eye away from all the non-environmentally friendly stuff they're really up to like scrapping tolls on the Forth Bridge.

Journos should always remember you can only fool all of the people some of the time...or am I just an old cynic?

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