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Scottish Newspaper banned from Lloyds bank press meeting
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by mudricky | March 1, 2009 at 05:22 am
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Reporters from a Scottish newspaper, the Scotsman were not allowed in to a meeting with other journalists in London regarding the Lloyds banking group.
The newspaper which is based in Edinburgh has been clear within it's pages it is against the merger of Halifax Bank of Scotland with Lloyds TSB.
Being excluded from the meeting the paper was not able to put questions to the Lloyds chief executive Eric Daniels or chairman Sir Victor Blank.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott said: "It is outrageous that a taxpayer-funded bank would ban journalists trying to do their job. It raises questions about what exactly Lloyds' bosses are trying to hide from readers in Scotland."
The Scotsman was the only media organisation prevented from attending.
Source: Lloyds' attempt to bully The Scotsman will not succeed & Outrage as The Scotsman is excluded from Lloyds briefing
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at 14:16 on March 1st, 2009
I think that any paper that publishes articles with titles such as "Vampires, Drag Queens and Swiss Cheese" (see your first photo) should be closed down by law, and I would recommend that its editors be locked up in a lunatic asylum on the grounds that they promote, in the order of the words used in the title, satanism, homophobia, and racism.
;)
at 14:58 on March 1st, 2009
ha ha if I remember correctly I think it was to do with fashion with in one of the booklets.
at 15:17 on March 1st, 2009
Yeah, right. "Fashion". That's what they all say.
Whatever, if that's fashion, give me French girls anyday!
More seriously though Mudricky, the fact that Scotsmen reporters be refused access to this meeting is scandalous. If what the article says is true, I think we should know more...., particularly in the current context of major upheavals in the banking sector.....
Smells bad to me...
at 18:08 on March 1st, 2009
The building that you claim is the heaquarters of The Scotsman is actually a hotel. The Scotsman and its sister titles moved to purpose-built offices at Holyrood a decade ago.
at 18:21 on March 1st, 2009
So what if it's a hotel now, it's still the Scotsman HQ building isn't it? And none of that's any reason for the Lloyds banksters to ban the journos surely?