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Trust levels worldwide with the BBC can be attributed to three main factors.
ReplyDeleteLegacy: The BBC was once free to reflect the opinions of its journalistic staff. The Birmingham six and the Guilford four had their convictions quashed partly as a result of Panorama and ITV’s competing, flagship current affairs platform World In Action.
Alternatives: There ain’t much competition out there. The oligarch press and other national broadcasters who are even worse than the BBC (Al Jazeera are broadly better but for obvious reasons they won’t criticise Qatar).
Subtlety: BBC bias doesn’t take the form of screeching, Pyongyang propaganda. Editorial policy selects certain permitted word and phrases. The health infrastructure in Gaza “crumbled”. Err, no it didn’t. Medieval castles crumble. The hospitals in Gaza had 2,000 lb bombs dropped on them, after which demolition teams moved in and raised the remaining structures to rubble.
The BBC messed up big time with the Question Time / Menthorn Media / Billy Mitchell scandal. The Scottish Government could have taken an adversarial approach and forced changes. Instead, they opted to let the BBC off the hook.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they made the naïve calculation that having been caught out practicing outrageous bias against Scottish independence, the BBC would proactively correct its behaviour?
Perhaps the fact that the politicians and the journalists move in the same social circles caused the Scottish Government to show some squeamishness towards wielding the knife towards their “friends”?
Perhaps Nicola Sturgeon’s fixation with gender politics caused her to declare “sisterly solidarity” with the head of BBC Scotland, Donalda MacKinnon (breaking the glass ceiling and all that)?
Oh here we go -its nicolas fault! Try another tune.
Delete“ Try another tune” why because you don’t like the truth.
DeleteThe current iteration of “D notices” are being used with a frequency I can’t remember from previous decades.
ReplyDeleteThe Keir Starmer arson trial would be a prime example.
As soon as the guilty verdicts were in, the BBC’s Panorama programme put out their version of what happened. In their account, “el Money” was a single person. During the trial (covered by independent journalists) el Money was revealed to be multiple people including one woman. Why would the BBC alter this trivial detail? It didn’t alter their basic thesis, that a Russian security service was behind the operation. Although no absolute proof of their thesis is available, it’s a racing certainty that the FSB or GRU were manipulating the hapless stooges.
Perhaps it’s policy to insert a little untruthfulness into every narrative to keep the public permanently exposed to the propaganda? The little lies will dull the sensibilities of the public for when it’s time to deliver the big lie.
An excellent video James, delivered with great passion and clarity, in which I agreed with everything you said.
ReplyDeleteAnother topic is BBC staff who are sexual offenders. There has been a long long list of them over many decades but none of the coverage of their guilty staff got anywhere near the levels of negative coverage that Salmond endured and he was acquitted. Similarly poor old Cliff Richard got it bad from the BBC ( he was innocent as well ) compared to the BBC’s own guilty staff.
A second topic is Scotland’s oil and gas. The BBC were very happy to continually say the oil would run out in 10 years during the referendum in 2014. 12 years on there is never a word about this as they debate whether NEW UK oil and gas fields should be opened.
When push comes to shove the BBC is just another state propaganda broadcaster who used to do a better job at hiding its true role.
I have to say it’s quite sad that all independence supporters seem to do these days is slag off the English/England/Westminster/the UK PM/the BBC, etc. It appears it’s all they have left.
ReplyDeleteNobody can put forward a case for independence, and certainly not an economic case. It just seems to be independence at all costs , and to hell with the consequences! For a lot of people their desire for independence seems driven by a hatred/dislike for England and the English. This attitude, of course, puts a lot of people off independence, and certainly won’t convert undecideds and soft No voters.
A few days ago I challenged Scot Goes Poppers to give me the so called “benefits of Indy”, but got virtually no response, other than personal abuse.
Says it all!
Norway's 2.3 trillion dollar wealth fund says it all. The cost of being controlled by Westminster or as economists would say the opportunity cost if Scotland had any choice. We don't have a choice do we. Westminster just closes any business/operation it wants in Scotland and helps itself to Scotland's resources. England has been looting Scotland of its resources since 1707 and then Britnats say we are too poor too wee too stupid. It's the people who live in Scotland and expect Westminster to care about Scotland and Scots who are stupid. They don't care about Scotland. They use it as a dumping ground for nuclear waste and use their control of the media in Scotland to keep people misinformed.
DeleteAnd the benefits of being run by Westminster are what?. Though I must admit Holyrood is making a pigs lug of most things too. Glasgow, sanctuary city. How’s that panning out ae and the way things are going it won’t be long till Scotland is a sanctuary country aided and abetted by the SNP.
DeleteSo, no “benefits of Indy” from anon@9:54!
DeleteUsual nonsense from Ifs@9:43.
KC no answer to my post but just silly abuse. The Norwegians won't think its nonsense to have a sovereign wealth fund of 2.3 trillion dollars rather than be chained to and controlled by a Westminster with a debt just below £3 trillion at end of July. This debt has increased from £0.8 trillion in 2010 to the near £3 trillion 16 years later. So despite Cameron's austerity years and the current cost of living crisis the UK ( England ) is racking up the debt at a rate that shows the UK is a failing state. England is going down and taking us with them. Or we could have been like Norway and be a very wealthy country. But hey the Britnat KC tells you we are better together. What a sick joke.
DeleteOh dear Ifs, I’ve rattled your cage this morning!
DeleteI’ve made several very valid points regarding independence, numerous times over the past week or so, which nobody has addressed! Just personal abuse and disgraceful anti English stuff.
I’ve got better things to do today than repeat them once again, and argue with you! We’ll leave it at that.
In the words of the great Sir Winston Churchill, on VE Day,
Advance Britannia
God save the King.
Anon at 9.54 am .... migration and the housing of migrants is reserved to Westminster. Nothing to do with the SNP.
DeleteKC “has better things to do” bye bye KC don’t hurry back.
DeleteThe BBC in Scotland must be furious that despite all that investment in Sarwar since 2021 the voters in Glasgow didn't elect him in his FPTP seat. The product being sold to the voters was dodgy so I am not surprised that didn't work. All this recent Glasgow negativity is the BBC getting its revenge.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC Britnat journalists trashing the place they work and live in.
DeleteEmbarrassing comment from Ifs@10:06.
DeleteOh dear!
Benefits from being an independent country. Ask Norway the same question or any other country really. We have a population of about 5.5 million with 2/3 the land mass of England with most of the natural resources of the so called UK here in Scotland and if we get our arses in gear and use these resources to the benefit of the people in Scotland, see Norway, do you honestly think that Scotland is too poor or too wee to run our own affairs.
DeleteIFSY the pretendy Indy guy trashing the only party in a position to progress Indy.
DeleteAnon@10:48am,
DeleteThe chances of a Chinese tourist capturing a photo of Nessie with his head above the surface of Loch Ness are higher than you lot ever getting your independence!
Anon Britnat at 11.01am happy that Sturgeon’s gang trashed the SNP. If you have been paying attention on SGL you will have seen that the poster who calls me IFSY posts nothing but abuse. Not a word on any subject. Just abuse of other posters. KC is the obvious Britnat on SGP this anon is one as well. He posts NOTHING advocating independence.
DeleteKC shows his complete disdain for more than 50% of the population of Scotland by calling us " you lot".
DeleteMarcia at 9.15am used to call me a Unionist back in the years 2020/21. She disnae now because I have been proven correct about Sturgeon and her gang. It's not me who has damaged the SNP and Scottish independence it's the people who blindly supported her.
Ifs,
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Don’t tell me you’re one of the gullible fools who take Find Out Now polls for the National seriously!
KC. Once. Twice. Three times a lady. A fine Great British lady cycling past the duck pond on the village green on her way to evensong. Living her Great British dream of Merrie Englande.
DeleteAnd baring her arse to the world.
YouGov Westminster voting intention field work 23 -24 Aug, population sample 2,380.
ReplyDeleteRefUK 23% (-1), Lab 22% (n/c), Con 20% (+1), LibDem 13% (+1), Green 13% (n/c).
Scottish sub-sample (207)
Con 7%, Lab 20%, LibDem 6%, SNP 29%, RefUK 21%, Green 11%, Restore 5%.
Dearie me, Restore Britain one percent behind the LibDems. Someone should take the computer aff grandpa before Fascistbook totally rots his brain.
Right on
DeleteAnon @ 11:01
ReplyDeleteIn 1916, how many supporters of nascent, nano-party, Sinn Féin were told to:
“Hold the course, put your faith in the Irish Parliamentary Party. I know it looks like they’ve settled into a comfortable life at Westminster, but they’re just biding their time for the big moment.
Trust John Redmond, he has a cunning plan so secret that he can’t divulge it to humble foot soldiers like us.”.
Six years later, marked by failure, and inaction, the Irish Parliamentary Party dissolved.
The BBC Scotland bias that really struck me was when the reporter didn't refer to the Tory health spokesman as 'Doctor' despite him being a practicing GP, but the SNP interviewee was 'Doctor' in the most fawning terms, despite not having practiced medicine for a decade. And when this was pointed out by the GP no apology / correction was forthcoming. I don't think that would happen on Radio 4.
ReplyDeleteDearie me, the SNPee below 30%!
ReplyDeleteBBC, as that brilliant and proper investigative journalist John Pilger rightly stated -
ReplyDelete"The BBC acts as a powerful arm of the British establishment and a refined global propaganda service".
He was spot on.
A British Pravda.
From allowing Bitter Together to actually use part of a BBC premises to spout its lying, fearmongering propaganda-bile at Scots in 2014, to framing almost every single narrative as if the 'precious union' was the norm, when in fact it is a complete outlier globally and BBC presenters literally spitting venom at some Pro-Indy advocates in so-called 'neutral interviews', that organisation certainly lived up to its charter promise to maintain the union.
No wonder poor wee yoonies love it.
Without it and the almost totally union-biased Scottish/UK Press, Scotland would have chosen independence 12 years ago - and they know it.
Oh dear!
DeleteA desperate individual who still can’t accept its game over for “Indy”.
Couldn't agree more.
DeleteThere is a reason that WM rigorously controls national broadcasting and completely refuses to devolve it.
They know its power and are absolutely terrified of losing that power to hugely influence the voting public..
If Scotland had had a decent, almost evenly split national broadcaster and written press in 2014, to more accurately reflect both sides of the Indy debate, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Scotland would have voted Yes and become an independent country.
WM routinely stack the deck in its favour in every way it can and that most definitely includes its use of the national broadcaster.
The UK is a fake union. Scotland is England's de facto colony. There is no real democracy in Scotland it is fake. Scotland's MPs will always be overruled by England's MPs. Scotland's vote in a critical referendum, the EU, can just be ignored. If Westminster disnae like something from Holyrood it just overrules it. This is not democracy it is subservience, subjugation and humiliation. It sure ain't no consensual union. It never was from the start. If this is a family of nations then it was a forced marriage where Scotland gets screwed decade after decade century after century. What have the SNP done over the last 12 years to remedy this situation - NOTHING.
ReplyDeleteAch there's always the ATLS !
DeleteIfS takes a lot of abuse on here but I very rarely disagree with any of his views regarding the SNP or independence for Scotland.
DeleteWhat have you done? You are on record here confirming that you have never staffed an Indy stand, knocked a door, handed out a leaflet or canvassed. And your comments are not your ideas. They are pretty much copy and paste from PJB and a few others with strong opinions and good knowledge of the Colony issue. You have none. Your hatred of N S and the SNP is well known. I’ll repeat the question. What have you done?
DeleteWhat has the SNP done to further the cause of independence post Alex Salmond
DeleteAnon at 4.47. Not a lot, but two sources of inactivity do not cancel each other out.
DeleteIfs, you don’t half spout some nonsense!
DeleteI mean, “de facto colony”! LOL.
The vast majority of the Scottish people will have no clue what you’re prattling on about!
Dear oh dear.
Anon Britnat troll at 4.38pm. I know what you do on SGP. You post a load of lies about me. That is your only contribution on SGP.
DeleteI have said many times on SGP that you lie that I am “on record here” da de da de da. Tiresome lying troll.
I see now you have been racking your brain and come up with another lie. My words are my own unless I put them in “ “ . I do not and never have read PJB.
I have told you before I don’t hate the SNP I want the SNP to change its leadership. You don’t because you are a Britnat. I don’t even hate Sturgeon. She is a crook and should be held to account. On the other hand you clearly hate me for pushing for independence on SGP.
Listen up Britnat anon I don’t answer to Britnats like you who are pretty despicable characters. It’s sad that you get triggered so quickly when I post on SGP but I do find Britnats are not keen on my posts. My advice to you - watch your blood pressure.
Anon at 4.18pm I do take a lot of abuse on SGP but they are mostly ignorant bullies hiding behind the anon crowd. They will not stop me giving my opinion. Most of them would be happy in any extreme authoritarian state that suppresses free speech.
DeleteKC you said you had better things to do. You didnae stay away long did you. You weren’t missed.
DeleteIFSY at 5.22. No answer then? You have done SFA for Indy you pathetic wee troll.. And you are on record saying it. Do you deny it? Your past doesn't go away.
DeleteAnonymous@11.11pm out of interest what have you done for independence?
DeleteGood laugh over on WOS. A moronic video statement by a Labour politician. Usual lies and disinformation but there is a pile in by one of his half wits who immediately assumed it was the SNP and started slagging them off. Campbell must love these muppets. Kerrching.
ReplyDeleteDoes that make you halfwit for visiting his site and reading the comments
DeleteThe Britnat troll at 4.58pm condemns anyone reading or mentioning WOS but regularly reads and comments about it on SGP.
DeleteThe old double standards and hypocrisy of a Britnat.
Nopes. Got me beat this one
DeleteYou keep an eye on the opposition you morons. How much money have you given Campbell? Be truthful now. Interesting that you clearly support Campbell and his cretins. Kerrching.
DeleteIn September 2004, Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, formerly Steven Demetre Georgiou was on a scheduled passenger flight to New York when it was diverted to Bangor, Maine. Yusuf was detained by officers of the Department of Homeland Security.
ReplyDeleteYusuf was on his way to work with Dolly Parton.
Big problem! Dolly picked up the phone to phone phoney cowboy and cretinous President of the United States, George W Bush.
Oh to have been the switchboard operator at the White House that night.
God / Allah bless you Dolly, you’ll be fair missed.
other examples of bbc clear bias is when the fable was invented by Carmichael then SoSS along with The Tory newspapers and bbc came in not to interrogate the sources of the lies - they already knew what was happening but went out on live TV to promulgate the lies. One of many disgraceful episodes which the NUJ keep their mouths tightly shut.
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