AMONG the widespread coverage in today’s newspapers of the killing of journalists in Paris, at the satirical publication, Charlie Hebdo, The Scotsman’s cartoon is of an ink well, spilling red across a broken pen, while The Herald quotes Neil Rafferty, the Scots editor-in-chief of the satirical website, The Daily Mash, who now lives in the south of France.
Begins Jane Bradley, in The Scotsman (here): “Charlie Hebdo was launched 45 years ago after another publication, Hara-Kiri, was banned by the French government for mocking the death of former leader, Charles de Gaulle.”
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THE recent former First Minister, Alex Salmond, is to pen a weekly column for both The Courier and The Press and Journal daily newspapers – starting Monday.
His signing up is today being trailed by each of the newspapers carrying the first instalment of a multi-part interview with Salmond, with him being quoted saying he has ruled out another quick referendum on Scots independence in favour of the country securing full control of all powers except foreign policy and defence.
His column for The Courier is promoted here…
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FOLLOWING from his report in yesterday’s Herald (as noted here), the paper’s chief reporter, David Leask, continues to investigate the phenomenon of ‘fake followers’ of twitter accounts, often because of ‘scammers’ targeting well-known names.
And today he turns his attention to football.
Here.
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BEGINS the website, radiotoday.co.uk: “To celebrate [Scot] Ken Bruce’s 30th anniversary on a daily BBC Radio 2 show, his producers organised a surprise call from… Ken Bruce!
“Rob Brydon provided the soundalike phone call, which revealed details of Ken’s 30 years of working on daytime Radio 2. It was January 7th 1985 when he took over the breakfast show – a time when Mike Read and Simon Bates were on Radio 1, Rob pointed out.”
Listen to the call and read more, here.
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STARTS a media release posted on allmediascotland.com by Holyrood Partnership: “Warners Solicitors and Estate Agents, Edinburgh’s leading property solicitor estate agent, has become the official sponsor of STV Edinburgh’s flagship magazine show.
“STV Edinburgh’s ‘The Fountainbridge Show’ launching on January 12 will air every evening between 7-8.30pm with a line-up of local presenters showcasing local music, culture and affairs.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS Moira Gordon, in today’s Scotsman: “If [BBC Scotland programme] Sportscene were to shy away from moments of controversy, it would be the equivalent of a player shirking a tackle during a game, according to former player and BBC pundit, Pat Nevin.”
Read more, here.
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