"I find myself fired for a passing remark in a specialist blog. I really don't understand why The Scotsman editor didn't phone me up and ask me to change the offending paragraph. It would have been easy to do without affecting the thrust of the piece. The reason I could have done that so easily is because the point is so self-evident. The fact that newspapers are losing advertising revenue to the web is not news. Indeed, The Scotsman itself reported on the troubles of its parent company, Johnson Press, on August 27 - blaming the fall in recruitment and property advertising for a large drop in profits."