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In my Opinion: Greg Russell: What now for local radio?
November 30, 2009
ONCE upon a time, when Independent Local Radio was alive and kicking, you could drive…
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In my opinion: Peter Murray: Time for a Scottish Media CommissionNovember 25, 2009
WHEN something is as badly broken as the current model of media ownership in the...
In my opinion: Graeme Cleland: It’s the delivery, stupidNovember 13, 2009
MEDIA industry types listened with interest as the world’s most powerful media magnate, Rupert Murdoch,...
In my opinion: Craig McGill: Should hacks get the top PR posts?November 8, 2009
IF you spend all your life in a profession, it’s a sensible assumption that, as...
In my Opinion: Martin Hannan: ITV and STVNovember 4, 2009
ALL my life I have detested bullies. Those who physically or mentally terrorise fellow human...
In my opinion: Jack Irvine: Newspapers and the internetOctober 8, 2009
FORMER Fleet Street doyen, Ramsay Smith, always says make your point in the first paragraph....
In my opinion: Mike Jempson: PCC internal review – a responseAugust 10, 2009
THE ‘silly season’ story no-one expected is news that the Press Complaints Commission intends to...
In my opinion: Eamonn O’Neill: The case for undercover reportingAugust 9, 2009
THE news that BBC journalist, Arifa Farooq, was arrested last week by Strathclyde Police was a...
In my opinion: Stephen Maxwell: Why so few Scots in The Guardian media top 100 list?July 22, 2009
THE media supplement of The Guardian recently published its selection of the Top 100 movers...
In my opinion: Donalda MacKinnon: Scotland the BraveMay 27, 2009
BBC plans to spread network production more into the ‘nations and regions’ have been written...
In my opinion: Martin Boyle: In defence of shorthand and media lawMarch 17, 2009
On Monday, Professor Brian McNair, of Strathclyde University, explained why shorthand has been dropped as an...
In my opinion: Alex Bell: Why talk107 was destined to failJanuary 6, 2009
AS the breakfast presenter when Edinburgh radio station, talk107, launched, I have some insight as...
In my opinion: Mark Gorman: Advertising’s capacity to thrillJune 30, 2008
I USED to be an ad man. Now, I no longer have to hide my...
In My Opinion: Paul Holleran: Should the Daily Record PM editions be welcomed?September 1, 2006
A STORMY meeting is expected at Central Quay in Glasgow today, when the Daily Record...
In My Opinion: Mike Wilson: Applause too self-conscious for festival openerAugust 15, 2006
PETER Broughan would have enjoyed the reaction to his vision of nine years ago. Now no...
In My Opinion: Mike Wilson: What next for talk107?August 3, 2006
THE first official listener figures for Scotland’s newest radio station make grim reading. Launched in...
In My Opinion: Mike Wilson: Niche work if you can get itJuly 31, 2006
IT’S become one of the hottest sports news stories around, the positive doping result from one...
In My Opinion: Alex Bell: What state current affairs programming in Scotland?July 28, 2006
ON Wednesday night, the BBC broadcast a powerful documentary about the death of black teenager,...
In My Opinion: Alex Bell: Big trouble in little BBCJuly 14, 2006
IN his Jeremy Clarkson-tight jeans and neat haircut, Blair Jenkins always had the manner of...
