The Daily Record

The Daily Record: A Record Read (195 words)
by Lochy - written on 10.02.01 (Very useful, 14 readings)
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The Daily Record is the biggest selling newspaper in Scotland and rightly so. Compared to other tabloid newspapers, it has got the Scottish people's opinions at heart and likes to campaign on behalf of worthwhile Scottish causes. In my opinion the writing is not done in a biased way, but lets the reader decide for themselves which way they want to judge the issues. I must concede that when it comes to their sports pages there can be a element of favouritism towards any one team but that all depends on which team you support. If it is viewed with an open-mind then the writing can be quite enjoyable. Another reason why I like this paper is that it ...

THIRD WORLD BRITAIN - "ACROSS OUR ESTATES AND INTO SUBU ... (751 words)
by Aang - written on 02.12.00 (Very useful, 51 readings)
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Half the crime in the city is committed by the police and the army; drugs are sold by the families of top politicians and soldiers; the police and the judges can be bought; drug crazed gangs of school kids fight each other to death: that's Jakarta, Indonesia. In many countries the drugs barons control journalists, politicians, generals, judges, and policemen through bribery and intimidation. In many countries the presidents are drugs barons. I met an English UN worker in Haiti and we got talking about corruption. He said, "Corruption is just as bad in Britain as it is in Haiti." "Surely not," I said. I hoped he ...

The Daily Record: Escort Girls And Semi-Naked Male Celebrities (1356 words)
by kenjohn - written on 06.07.01 (Very useful, 590 readings)
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~ ~ As a fairly newly qualified journalist myself, (August, 2000) I thought I’d start to have a wee look at some of the daily newspapers on offer to the public, and give you my opinion on how I think they shape up. I have already posted one opinion in this category, on the “Sunday Times”, but as this is a newspaper that I truly love, and which supplies me with enough good reading material to last me nearly the whole week, it wasn’t too hard to give it a glowing reference. ~ ~ This morning, while buying my usual morning newspaper the “Irish Times”, I happened to notice a copy of one of the best selling Scottish papers on ...