The Scotsman

really what Jim

the you know the Bush Telegraph so to speak was very effective and now I'm not so sure uh basically you've got a review in the Scotsman uh yeah I get the newspaper salesman used to stand outside the assembly room selling the Scotsman about midnight

Yeah, you're looking for your...

And you'd be driving to a

And, uh, you know, just working every night, and then during the day trying to write and trying to get work of some sort- Yeah ... of nature.

Um, so it was things like football websites and When Saturday Comes, little football magazines, and then The Scotsman and The Herald, uh, started giving me a little bit of work doing m- match reports and things.

So what you say, was it articles or more match reports type of stuff?

Started with match reports, which were brilliant.

So you could also run through it and also have a good time.

OK, so here's a quote from the newspaper called The Scotsman, which announced Dr. Helby's death March 28th, 1921.

And skeptics say that this is where the two child passengers may have dropped into the story.

Quote.

and services rather than leave the control and financial returns in private hands

yes and just briefly if listeners are wondering when britain's going to war in a thousand days time is the 21st of july 2029 so just mark your your diaries and prepare for going over the top My second headline is similarly worthy of ridicule, and that's a Scotsman editorial entitled Don't Let Data Centres Become a National Pariah.

One Day They Might Save Us All.

The newspaper has taken a very... pro data center line although acknowledging the concerns presented by swathes of the public a major reason why we need data centers is that they provide the computing power for artificial intelligence and the turmoil affecting websites worldwide helps explain its growing importance the scotsman going hell for leather for data centers concluding their editorial with the following line Only data centres that adhere to high environmental standards and are located in suitable places should go ahead.

We talked last week, of

course, about the Tory treasurer's involvement in the application and Dumfries's

and Galloway, the Scotsman, is now added to that lengthy list.

What have you got for us, second, Rory?

Rockstar has a dozen offices around the world, but its power center, Rockstar North, is located in the Scottish capital, a small city full of ancient castles and cobblestone streets, about as stark a contrast to Miami as could be.

Rockstar North occupies a sleek three-floor office that used to be the headquarters of a newspaper called The Scotsman.

Paneled screens across the atrium display character artwork from GTA 6, while the executive suites offer stunning views of nearby crags.

On a sunny day in late September, the office is full of people working to squash bugs before the release.

During the conversation, Robert's friend stepped from his bar stall and said that he had something to show him.

He disappeared around the corner of the bar and came back with a copy of the Scotsman newspaper.

As he fumbled through the pages, he commented that Robert must know this man, as he was also a pilot based at the same airport.

Coming to the page that he was looking for, Robert's friend placed the newspaper down on the bar in front of him and pointed to the article.

Ask a government worker or the manager of a GP practice and they might tell you that it feels like the cyber attack is coming from inside the house.

The Scotsman reports that civil servants are at their wit's end trying to deal with a deluge of parliamentary questions and freedom of information requests that they believe are being generated using artificial intelligence.

The number of demands for information from certain MSPs has been raising suspicions for some time.

In particular, Tory MSP Stephen Kers, 1,477 questions in one year, and his colleague Douglas Lumsden's even more staggering 987 in a single month.

Trying to enter into correspondence with someone illiterate is only likely to produce further incoherent text.

At a time when access to GP services is a major ongoing challenge and A&E departments are overrun with people who don't need to be there, it's utterly frustrating to contemplate doctors and nurses having to spend any time fielding queries from admin staff about spurious or incomprehensible complaints.

As it happens, one of the civil servants quoted in the Scotsman's story said their efforts to progress the Scottish Government's GP walk-in centres policy, designed to alleviate some of the pressures, is being hindered by demands for briefing notes about the policy.

Artificial intelligence may yet unlock an array of new treatments and cures, but if the people in a position to approve and administer them are drowning in digital paperwork, patience will be no further forward.

Welcome to Talk Media, the show that takes you behind the scenes, analysing how the media works and who works the media.

I'm Stuart Cosgrove and today I'm delighted to welcome back Catriona Stewart, the education correspondent for The Scotsman.

She's back in the show regularly.

Kat, you met a former Scotland manager, Mr Steve Clark, in the week.

I mean, the Higgs boson came out of research that seemed fairly inconsequential and then eventually led to this astonishing discovery.

So, you know, you never know what's going to be useful.

Next up, statistics from Ipsos uncovered in the Scotsman.

Just one in five people, that's 20%, believe the country is, quote, heading in the right direction, with 51% of surveyed Scots believing we're heading in the wrong direction.