By stewartb
The BBC News website this morning (27 April) had the above prominently displayed on its Scotland ‘business’ page – it’s the lead article.
Note the reference to ‘devolved administrations’. And especially note the juxtaposition to a reference to a delayed Scottish scheme. If scanning the headlines on the Scotland ‘business’ page this morning, what message does the casual reader get – ‘Oh dear, not that SNP government ….again!’?
If one clicks on the headline ‘Cash-for-bottle …’ it takes the reader to another BBC News website article. The screenshot below reveals what one finds:
Magically, the headline has changed! Readers are now getting a rather different insight are they not? This is a Westminster government scheme and one delayed following a decision by ministers in Westminster.
This may be a minor matter if taken in isolation but it does not occur in isolation. This is distortion! Why should we believe it is other than deliberate?
Talking-up Scotland / Scottish media fact checking is like shooting fish in a barrel 
Indeed Stewart, it is a deliberate attempt to mislead those ‘grazing’ the headlines – You may not realise ‘the con’ you refer to is now invisible to outsiders – eg I see a similar BBC Scotland page to you but it’s subtly different, a parallel ‘reality’… Viz – If I pull up the BBC’s Scotland page, there is no Politics tab, and every one of the other tabs take you back to the main BBC page – eg If I select the Business tab as you had done, it lands on the BBC.com ‘business’ page…
Had you inserted the link address in your piece, I would probably have been able to view it, but it’s only a matter of time before even that will be closed off with a ‘404’ – The propagandists have new digital toys…
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The BBC is the master of the con from downright lying to subliminal advertising. Watch any BBC Scottish sitcom and I’ll guarantee you will see whisky of a certain type, a can of Irn Bru on a table, frequent mention of a certain brand of High Street bakery Greggs, canned soups by Baxter or Campbell and that’s just from Still Game.
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The BBC reporting of Scottish NHS waiting lists being lengthy without any reference to England’s being worse. Or how Scotland’s NHS performance on A&E waiting times, ambulance response times etc all out perform those in England or Wales.
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