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Inaccurate, misleading and counter-productive but worse than that, disgusting – The Herald’s endless imagery of ‘poverty porn’ and helpless individual despair

Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald yesterday headlined their report on autism and ADHD waiting times with an apparently tragic image of tearful wee, Madeleine McCann-like, fair-haired girl of 3 to 4 years, to somehow represent it’s content. While I’m sure the parents will be at times tearful, are the children likely to be upset about a wait for treatment they might find unpleasant or not understand? Is the Herald’s wee girl not more likely …
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Reporting Scotland Up (Talking-Up Scotland II) broke the news in on Saturday, October 18, 2025.
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