FOUR THOUSAND DEAD!!! Scare or inform? Reporting Scotland always go ‘SCARE!’

Overheard in the Reporting Scotland ‘war room’ today:

FOUR THOUSAND DEAD! OK that’s the headline sorted.

FOUR THOUSAND DEAD! OK that’s the opening sentence.

What next? Oh we don’t know. Maybe we should inform them on how many just today, whether that’s fewer than last week, how many weeks it’s been falling – that kind of thing?

Well OK, if you think that informing them about what’s happening today in the world around them is ‘in the public interest’ but let’s not forget, FOUR THOUSAND DEAD!!

We promised Jackson we’d do the FOUR THOUSAND DEAD!! thing.

Glenn and Sarah have both phoned to remind us to say FOUR THOUSAND DEAD!!

Come on then, enlighten me if you must:

Even with the NRS figures added, fewer deaths than last week, fewer deaths every week for six weeks now, fewer deaths in care homes, 47% in care homes….STOP….Jackson says it’s more than half in care homes and he went to school with one of the care home owners, so he must know.

OK you better put that stuff in. We’ll get complaints otherwise but remember FOUR THOUSAND DEAD!!!

Seriously though:

What is the news? Isn’t it about changes that might affect your life? So, knowing the number of deaths and the trend might affect what you think you can now do and do in the future, but knowing how many there have been altogether, would that be useful to you in any way? The BBC has a charter requiring it to educate, inform and entertain so how does this do any of those?

FOUR THOUSAND DEAD!!!

Please don’t say you find that entertaining?

7 thoughts on “FOUR THOUSAND DEAD!!! Scare or inform? Reporting Scotland always go ‘SCARE!’”

  1. Is it high time that the No 4000
    Was put on Bingo cards and etched into the Nations memory
    Or even better take down the Dundas column in St.Andrews Sq.and erect a 4000 Ft. Spectaular one in its place in bright Red,White & Blue flashing lights
    Forming a Union Jack Grand Opening when Jackson appointed Governor General upon cancellation of Scottish Nationhood
    All so it can create a headline for all MSM
    in memory of those that could have been saved if Jackson had been in charge
    I know this ridicule but such deployed
    To demonstrate who really are so

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  2. All the BBC had to do was add context. Scotland, as they persist in telling us, is part of the UK.
    So how do Scotland’s figures look in the wider picture? Good? Bad? Average?
    Alas, they have “covered it up”—– to coin a phrase.

    Now if it was PISA results, or GERS, the BBC would be shouting it from the top of Tory Party headquarters (Pacific Quay)—but it isn’t, so our wee colonial broadcaster runs true to form.

    And what is “its form”? –If it WAS a horse race, then this nag is nobbled.

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    1. Please and for all never ever use the name BBC
      Amend to read ABC
      I.E.Absurdistan Broadcasting Corporation
      Why
      Because they are ABSURD & Represent a ABSURD country the UK

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