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Originally Posted by LondonRoad
Maybe you expect less standards from journalism than I do. Maybe the standards of journalism are such that our expectations are lower.
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If you have higher expectations then you should be a good deal more questioning about Murray's assertions in a blog post rather than assuming it to be true and asking why it wasn't declared.
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I'm not talking about anybody advocating a side in the vote. I'm talking about the editor of a national newspaper who doesn't have a vote, has a significant personal interest, fails to mention it.
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We don't know if it's significant personal interest. We don't know how the vote influences it because he have no idea that 'it' is or what policies could impact upon 'it'.
All we know, and I had to research this much since Murray wasn't kind enough too, is that the guy mentioned is a Scottish Politician who was made a life peer and given the title: "Baron Mackie of Benshie". Somewhere along the line he must have been given an estate with the same name for reasons unknown, or renamed an existing estate he had with the title.
Unless Murray saw the name and presumed that Benshie was a place and since he was a 'Baron' it must be a large amount of land and that he owned it.
Still. I don't think the prospect of an editor's wife possibility being bequeathed property in the future is of sufficient importance to warrant a discloser from that editor when writing about an issue which could somehow affect it. After all the amount of issues could impact upon that property is massive.