Talk:The Herald (Glasgow)

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It is Scotland's best-selling national broadsheet. Mark Douglas-Home, nephew of the late Sir Alec Douglas-Home, is a former editor. On Thursday 1 December it was announced that he had left the title after five years.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/51861.html

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.252.152.29 (talk • contribs) 09:19, December 3, 2005 (UTC)

Clarification

Could somebody clarify this:

It is worthy of mention that the Herald's current stance of charging for archive accesses prejudices substantiating many Wikipedia items solely covered by the newspaper and relevant to predominately Glasgow or Scotland. JesseHogan 02:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Clarify how? Articles *are* only available on the website for two or three days, and this does make it useless for just about, ooh, anything. I think that's a bit too Meta for the main article, however. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.49.157 (talk • contribs) 00:41, February 9, 2006 (UTC)

Millionth article story

"Suburban station secures its place in internet history" The Herald (Glasgow)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by CatherineMunro (talk • contribs) 06:21, March 3, 2006 (UTC)

Political Orientation

Is anyone aware of the editorial stance of the Herald? It would be very handy to be able to compare The Herald with the Scotsman in this respect, the latter defined as "centre-right", so that we can get an idea of the prevalent political allegiances in Scotland's two "newspapers of record". Many thanks if someone is capable of adding this, unfortunately I am not a regular reader of either. 86.138.137.123 13:53, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I would say that it is fairly obviously centre-left, traditionally a supporter of the Labour Party. On the constitutional issue it is Unionist, although it tends to give slightly more sympathetic coverage to independence than The Scotsman (and it was definitely pro-devolution, unlike The Scotsman). Of course it would be nice if we could reference that, but I am pretty sure that we could safely describe it as centre-left (surely no-one would contest that?)

Incidentally, at the last UK general election its final editorial before polling day advised people to vote LibDem or SNP if they had a good chance of defeating Labour in a particular local constituency. ie. it dislikes Blair strongly. I would guess it was strongly pro-Brown though! :) --Mais oui! 15:01, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

If they oppose the SNP in comment pieces it makes me feel that they are not only anti independence but against the centre left policies of the SNP, and therefore right wing. Now that there is a majority for independence, it is only going to annoy readers. But generally I think we need a newspaper that gives the facts, and not unneeded opinions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.100.228.4 (talk • contribs) 13:48, August 15, 2020 (UTC)

The Sunday Herald urged people to vote SNP in the May '07 Scottish election, I can't remember if the Herald did the same. 86.4.222.140 (talk) 22:57, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Circulation

"It is Scotland's best-selling broadsheet", would appear to be false. The link to ABC confirms that the Press & Journal has Total Average Net Circulation Per Issue of 84,137 and the Dundee Courier with 79,945. And that The Herald has Total Average Net Circulation Per Issue of 71,686. It could be an honest mistake as The Herald has more national coverage than the P&J and Courier, or that the "Voice of the North" does not publish it's Saturday edition as a broadsheet. However I feel that this could be brand promotion on Wikipedia and therefore this line should be deleted and replaced with the facts. Anyone disagree? Benson85 20:49, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

• The legend under the masthead used to read "Scotland's best-selling quality newspaper [emphasis mine]" so perhaps that's how it was justified. I'm also not sure if either of the papers you mentioned are broadsheets (I don't live in that area). On today's paper it certainly now reads "Scotland's leading quality daily newspaper", which is far more ambiguous. Presumably sales figures have changed, and, as you say, the assertion should be removed. --Scott Wilson 13:17, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

As far as I am aware, The Herald is truly national while the P&J as well as the Courier are only distributed throughout the north-east. Therefore this would mean that it probably is Scotland's best selling national broadsheet, as that would make it the only actual broadsheet with nationwide circulation. I won't declare this as fact, but certainly believe with good intentions that this is the case. 86.135.61.8 18:30, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

• It is _Scotland's_ best-selling broadsheet: the P&J and Courier are regional papers, and not on sale across the country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.49.157 (talk • contribs) 16:34, October 25, 2006 (UTC)