According to ABCe Scotsman.com has dropped from four million unique users a month to a mere two million. Oddly enough this drop in unique users coincides with this paper's virulent Anti-SNP bias on every page. All of which makes this great breaking news all the more welcome. It also makes Alan Greenwood the online editor's assertion that, "The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, and by extension scotsman.com, advocated support for the SNP at the most recent Scottish Parliamentary elections." absolutely fucking hilarious....
=BREAKING==NEWS===BREAKING===NEWS===BREAKING==NEWS===== Breaking news, 8pm. The Scotsman editor has apparently stepped down. In a memo issued by the paper's managing director, Michael Johnston, Mike Gilson has "relinquished his position with immediate effect". Johnston continues: "Further announcements will be made in due course. The company has no other comment to make at this time." With sister title, Scotland on Sunday, soon losing its editor, Les Snowdon - to become sports editor at the Daily Mail - speculation will be rife that The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday titles might be brought together, at least under a single production system.
=======FURTHER==BREAKING==NEWS==JOHN=MCLELLAN==NEW==EDITOR.
John McLellan has been appointed editor of The Scotsman, succeeding Mike Gilson who left the post yesterday.
The current editor of the Edinburgh Evening News and a former Scotland on Sunday editor, McLellan takes over on Monday. It is understood the other main titles in the Scotsman Publications' portfolio - the Edinburgh Evening News and Scotland on Sunday - will have their own editors, but that McLellan will have some operational 'responsibilities' for them.
John McLellan took over the Edinburgh Evening News paper in 1997, having been its deputy editor for the previous four years. He subsequently spent three years as editor of the Scotland on Sunday before returning to edit the News for a second time in 2004. Born in Glasgow in 1962, he was educated at Hutchesons’ Grammar School and Stirling University. He now lives in Merchiston with his wife Trish and three children.
Will he continue with the myopic, narrow unionist bias, personified by the woefully inadequate Gilson?
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thanks for the update
Hey Alan, see Mike Gilson in the flesh so to speak...
http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2009/01/08/9290-interview-with-mike-gilson-editor-of-the-scotsman
AHOY man Murkin, nice capture. Ha ha fu#king ha, that is what they get. Bloody spivs. Yeh they only said change was good when they thought the SNP would win. I hope that paper goes down
Rarely read it - no longer post there - or the Herald. A pox on both their houses.
You can hardly ever post there anyway, there I was yesterday,having a wee pop at Grahamski and the bloody thing went down.
Wish I could remember what I posted :-(
Good riddance. I mind him lying his ass off in a freedom of speech debate on the Scotsman. He said he was all for freedom of speech then slyly a few hours later removed all flaming comments.
The problem for the Scotsman is most of it's political journos are English, and by virtue of this and reasonably, cannot get independence. They have their jobs due to being in the union so it is all fantastic for them. If however they were Scottish they may perceive what their being asked to do as immoral. They are being loyal too britain, we are being loyal to Scotland.
Oil and water.
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