Reasons To Vote YES For Scottish Independence as if Scotland needed any more, and the BBC in Scotland.

A wonderful video. It sums everything up and puts it fairly and squarely in the hands of the people who live in Scotland, and who are over 16, in 2014. It also tells the rest of the World why Scotland is voting, what it is voting about and why it is so important. I strongly believe that Scotland will be better off after independence. I also believe that the other nations in the UK will better off after Scottish independence. Scotland can do its bit for everyone better by being able to engage with Europe and the World on its own terms.  If you live in Scotland Vote YES on 18th September 2014.

 

It also helps balance the horrendously skewed referendum coverage being churned out on a daily basis by the mainstream media in general and the BBC or British Broadcasting Corporation in particular (the clue is in the title I suppose). Embarassingly though for the BBC, it is the part that is most meant to represent Scotland (BBC Scotland) which seems to have its needle most stuck in the wrong groove. Perhaps because we would expect it to reflect the views of ALL of the people who live in Scotland who it purports to represent, educate, inform and entertain. In its broadcasting it has long made a big thing about being balanced, fair, impartial and unbliased, and it has been so blatant in its failure on this extraordinarily important occasion. Instead ALL of the people of Scotland just seem to have to pay for it, but not expect to be treated with respect in return. There is a very strong case for a broadcaster funded in Scotland in the same way as the BBC. What a pity the BBC seems determined to undermine it, over and over again, to a greater or lesser degree, day after day. Please see below several of many examples.

 

Mainstream media bias in Scottish Independence Referendum Campaign

You may not have been aware of it as it was not mentioned on any UK based mainstream media that there was a demonstration on Sunday 1st June 2014 at the BBC headquarters in Glasgow against their biased coverage during the Scottish Independence Referendum campaign.

Again the demonstration was mentioned on the Russia Today (RT) news channel, meaning as per the occasion of the Scottish Independence Rally in Edinburgh in 2013, the Scots must rely on foreign news services to report their own local news.

There is something very wrong with the mainstream media in Scotland when it is actively working against the interests of the people who it is supposedly meant to serve. The very worst culprit in this matter is the BBC as the people it is consistently not serving are the people who are directly paying for it.

I personally believe that if the Scots were actually told the facts regarding Scotland's position within the UK there would be no doubt as to a YES vote in September as there is so much evidence from which to choose as to how Scotland would be better off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ICN_g1EvolQ

And there is the further matter of the continuous bar on comments on internet stories relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum. Why is it when it comes to Scottish politics people are not allowed to comment but when it relates to all of the UK, or any other part of the UK people are permitted to comment freely.

More than a year on and unsurprisingly the BBC still refuse to open up comments for their hapless and generally baseless unionist Scottish Independence Referendum  propaganda. This was even mentioned on their own BBC News Channel Newswatch programme some time ago but nothing has changed.

A once great and beloved institution continues to tarnish and destroy its own reputation. If we cannot trust them on this very important occasion one wonders if we can trust the BBC on anything every again.

 http://youtu.be/cmdRnb3Ic7M

http://t.co/uzaXQdNy9K Mainstream media bias continues #BBC #bbcbias #Scotland #indyref #YesMovement #freescotland #YesScotland #Yes2014
— Dean Brown (@scotcitizenblog) June 2, 2014

Gains of Yes: 3: Media Bias

 I am for YES because I want Scotland to have a mainstream media that actually promotes the interests of Scotland to the Scots and not the exact opposite as has been the case so far throughout the Scottish Independence Referendum, and long before. 

This is generally insidious and on many occasions subliminal but there have been many more obvious cases. 

The one that sticks in my mind at this moment as it was such a whopper was the Independence March and Rally on 21.09.2013. As I wasn't there due to illness and lack of money I thought I would watch live coverage on the BBC News Channel. Nothing was mentioned not then or in later UK wide bulletins, the latter applying also to ITV News and Sky News. It was only when I got to the RT news channel (yes the one based in Moscow, Russia) that there was live coverage from the event. 

It is a sad day when no UK broadcaster is showed an event occurring in their own country involving between 20000 and 30000 of their own citizens. I am sure if this number marched through London it would have received blanket coverage.

A YES vote is the only way to change this.

Scottish Independence Rally TV Coverage - 21.09.2013

The BBC recently stated that they would find it hard to provide unbiased reporting on the debate in advance of the independence referendum on 18th September 2014. If their lack of live coverage, and reporting of the Scottish Independence Rally on Saturday is anything to go by, they definitely are.

The BBC said in their Scottish News Summary that 8000 attended. Everyone else said between 20000 and 30000 attended.

As I wasn't there I thought I would watch live coverage on the BBC News Channel. Nothing was mentioned not then or in later UK wide bulletins, the latter applying also to ITV News.

I also checked Sky News coverage. You've guessed it, nothing either!  It was only when I got to the RT news channel (yes the one based in Moscow, Russia) that there was live coverage from the event.

It is a sad day when no UK broadcaster is showing an event occurring in their own country involving between 20000 and 30000 of their own citizens. I am sure if this number, or even the equivalent proportion of the English population (i.e. about 200000 to 300000 people) marched through London it would have received blanket coverage.

The BBC and Sky News unbiased in the Scottish Independence Referendum? If so then I am Jemima Puddleduck. Shame on you BBC and Sky News.

The BBC comes in for particular criticism though since those 20000 - 30000 are required by law to pay their license fee, and therefore are entitled to receive unbiased coverage of this debate and this particular event.

I have previously talked about the bias on this subject of the mainstream media here... http://scotcitizen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-bbc-is-loosing-its-long-held.html