Tv Review: Tales of the Far-Fetched and the Highly Fanciful

The Scotsman › October 25, 2006

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Deadline: The Story of the Scottish Press, BBC1 Horizon, BBC2

Deadline: The Story of The Scottish Press was fond of flinging comparative impressions and statistics at us. "Ours is the fifth toughest newspaper market in Europe." It was like being in the changing room after a circuit class at the gym, where the men say things like "that was a really hard work-out tonight" to celebrate the brute force of their masculinity.

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Tv Review: Tales of the Far-Fetched and the Highly Fanciful

The journalists given a chance to contribute to Deadline fondly remembered their flouting of the laws of decency in pursuit of circulation as though journalism w...

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