A couple of bits of (maybe unintentional) chutzpah aside, this rumination on Scotland’s newspapers from Arthur MacMillan, which I knew was in the pipeline, is disappointing: high on sermonising, low on ideas.
If Brian Wilson is right, and a merged Scotsman/Herald is the only way forward, surely — by the logic of this article — that makes Tom Devine’s “democratic deficit” a self-fulfilling prophecy? The economic and democratic arguments here are two wildly different things, and surely the key question isn’t “how can we save these papers?” but “what can these papers become in a post-paper world?”
Either way: this is nowhere near as interesting as what I was wittering about yesterday, so really: if you’ve not done so, go and have a look at that instead.
