BBC Scotland Bias During 2014 Referendum

[The Harp Awakes]

Is it any surprise there were so many claims of anti-independence bias by BBC Scotland during the 2014 referendum?

Not when you read this:

https://lenathehyena.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/oh-what-a-tangled-web-we-weave-when-first-we-practice-to-deceive-bbc-scotland-and-the-labour-party/

[marinello59]

Is it any surprise there were so many claims of anti-independence bias by BBC Scotland during the 2014 referendum?

Not when you read this:

https://lenathehyena.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/oh-what-a-tangled-web-we-weave-when-first-we-practice-to-deceive-bbc-scotland-and-the-labour-party/

It's already been posted. Politicians, political reporters and family members involved with same party shocker. You could spin exactly the same story about every party. Except the SNP obviously. No family dynasties or marriages to political reporters there.Obviously. And if there is that's totally different. Obviously.

[johnbc70]

I thought it was MI5's fault there was a No vote?

[Beefster]

This is like the longest tantrum ever.

[snooky]

This is like the longest tantrum ever.

Agreed, and all because of possible corruption in a wee insignificant referendum. :rolleyes:

[Beefster]

Agreed, and all because of possible corruption in a wee insignificant referendum. :rolleyes:

It's not though.

[steakbake]

That is a lot of coincidences but I don't see it as a conspiracy. It's just evidence of how entrenched Labour is in public life... yet despite all of it, they're now a minor party in Scotland in the Westminster parliament and things aren't looking good for them in 2016.

[Just Alf]

That is a lot of coincidences but I don't see it as a conspiracy. It's just evidence of how entrenched Labour is in public life... yet despite all of it, they're now a minor party in Scotland in the Westminster parliament and things aren't looking good for them in 2016.

Totally agree.

[snooky]

That is a lot of coincidences but I don't see it as a conspiracy. It's just evidence of how entrenched Labour is in public life... yet despite all of it, they're now a minor party in Scotland in the Westminster parliament and things aren't looking good for them in 2016.

Aye, and if it looks like, feels like & smells like ...... then it probably is.

[steakbake]

Aye, and if it looks like, feels like & smells like ...... then it probably is.

I think it's more people are hired because they move in the same shoal. I wouldn't have thought there was an active policy to bar people from working based on their potential view point.

Scotland, particularly West of Scotland, has been dominated by Labour over the past 20-30 years. It would seem only normal that those who operate in political circles that have been dominated by one party are intermarried, have friendships or business relationships. Humans are as given to the herd instinct as any other animal. And yes, to an extent, they look out for and hire from within their own cliques. Like lawyers hiring due to the old school tie network, or only passing business on to friends or immediate people you know.

Incestuous, very much so. Conspiracy to silence alternative voices, not purposefully. I think that is potentially what might happen now, but how we've got to this stage would take one hell of a stitch up.