I am surprised and delighted to already have two comments on my first blog entry!
Point taken though - I first came across the article due to a reference about it in my local paper, and I read it in the same light as the paper was written. It may not be an entirely negative view of Shetland, but it is certainly unflattering in the extreme. Shetland has many 'soothmoothers' that have chosen to live here, so it can't be all bad!
Having said that - there is much in the article that is actually not true or very much an over exaggeration - for example, the report of the oil industry having collapsed is blatantly false.
Interestingly, the journalist that wrote the article was quite willing to talk to our local journo's about the article, but the gentleman quoted was nowhere to be seen...
