The Daily Record

I haven't always read the Daily Record, I switched allegiances only two years ago. But now that I'm buying it, there's no going back. It's hard to say what's the main reason for it. The Record, for one, has unrivalled sports reporting. You'll get more information that in any other paper. And it's more accurate journalism that some of it's rivals. Yes, you'll get four pages on the Old Firm, but you'll also get the latest transfer news from Brechin and East Fife. The news section is equally good. The stories are short and snappy, you don't have to get your head round extensive vocabularly and phrases. Yes, ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Isn't it strange that so many people turn out just like their parents? Our parents vote for a certain political party and when we grow up we tend to vote for the same one. Unless we have a real interest in politics we do not even question WHY, we just do it because they did. We support the same football teams, we shop in the same shops - and worse still, as we get older we even find ourselves listening to the music that they used to listen to. But even stranger than that is our choice of newspaper. For the first few years after I fled the nest and took that wonderful leap into matrimonial bliss (yeah right!!) I found myself religiously buying the ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ 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 ...  Read the complete review