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Mac-Talla: A' Paigheadh Mac-Talla

Mac-Talla: A' Paigheadh Mac-Talla

Posted by Andrew on Monday 5 September 2016
The newspaper Mac-Talla only ran for a dozen years, and over that time had a great need for money to keep the paper going and in print. They were especially reliant on subscription payments from their readers, who paid monthly or annually for each issue. Many of the issues include a list of “Those Who Paid”, printing names and addresses of those who read the paper (many of which live outside Canada, as far afield as Britain and Australia and South Africa). But they must also have had great difficulty in getting these subscription payments from some of their readers, because the editors are frequently angry about those who didn’t pay! Things came to a head with this piece:
 
There is a newspaper in China which is more than a thousand years old. In that time more than nineteen hundred of its editors have been beheaded! It’s a good thing that no king or judge can behead newspaper editors today, but it would be a very useful thing in this country if a law was made to behead those who do not pay the papers, especially those who do not pay MAC-TALLA.
 
We can understand their frustration – especially since the paper stopped publishing because of a lack of subscribers – but perhaps demanding execution for non-payment is not the best course!
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