New-Look Sunday Herald Launches as Strike is Called Off

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• "Given that it has set a very dangerous precedent of ditching any serious critical arts coverage,the 'new look' Sunday Herald isn't worth the paper its printed on. It's astonishing that when even the Holyrood C-listers are getting their act together on arts and culture, the media is dumbing everything down to little more than rewritten press releases dressed up as puff pieces. All senior editors and senior management who sanctioned the move should be ashamed of themselves, those who crossed a picket line in particular."
  2by4 06/08/2007
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• "So managing editor Tim Blott agrees to go back to the negotiating table at the eleventh hour. But no one should be in any doubt that he is still pursuing a cost cutting agenda and sees changing working practices as his main goal. That will require more work for fewer staff, poorer quality products and editors willing to do his bidding at any price. If the talks breakdown and there is a return to industrial action, it will be time for those same editors to take a stand against Blott. The political storm which will engulf him if talks are sabotaged will see him off in any case. Meanwhile, it was heartening to see more people close to the top echelons join the NUJ action. But remember, Blott really does think you only need a handful of willing dupes to produce a paper for a public he doesn't know or care about. Be warned. As to the new look Sunday Herald. It is the Habitat of newspapers, the pile them high sell them for as much as you can get of blatts. Its success depends more on how this industrial dispute is resolved than any amount of tinkering with its format."
  rkocaine 06/08/2007
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