If the Scotsman wants us to pay for news ‘we can trust’ shouldn’t they tell us when we’re reading a Tory councillor on Nicola Sturgeon?

Scotsman report corrected in the public interest by TuSC Analytica

I’n not persuaded, so I haven’t paid. Knowing who the writer is, I suspect it will be just more Tory propaganda. I’ve seen several pieces by McLellan and none of them own up to his back-story.

Are they worried that might affect interest? I’m guessing it’s another sneaky attack along the same lines as Macwhirter in the Herald last week but a bit more literate than Ian Murray’s Zoom spluttering for Guido Fawkes yesterday.

It’s not just him. Brian Wilson, former New Labour minister, Brian Monteith, Brexit MEP and former tory MSP and Gina Davidson, Labour adviser, appear regularly without any reference to these details.

I wouldn’t trust any newspaper that employed such sneaks.

3 thoughts on “If the Scotsman wants us to pay for news ‘we can trust’ shouldn’t they tell us when we’re reading a Tory councillor on Nicola Sturgeon?”

  1. Ethical journalism, so not in Scotland then:–

    “Journalists must be independent voices; we should not act, formally or informally on behalf of special interest, whether political, corporate or cultural. We should declare to our editors–or the audience–any of our political affiliations, financial arrangements or other personal information that might constitute a conflict of interest”.

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  3. Real journalists report the facts, and educate their readers. Reporting from the ground up. Not from the top down. They exist to inform, bring governments to account and ask the questions that reveal the truth. With impartiality and without fear or favour. Those who ignore these principles are not real journalists. They are the compliant lickspittal of the executive.

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