Submitted today at 14:28.
BBC Complaint over unethical and unreliable reporting of chronic pain sufferers
Submitted today at 14:28.
John Robertson, retired professor of media politics and SNP member Photo: Ayrshire Daily News
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Good luck with getting a response (an apology will almost certainly be too much for the BBS in Scotland).
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Well done prof! Can’t help but wonder if Fiona Stalker got a tip off from someone with an axe to grind about this issue before her tweet. On BBC’s GMS on Radio Scotland this morning, Laura Maciver interviewed the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Jeane Freeman, about the Public Enquiry into the QEUH, (about 2 hours 6 minutes in). At the end of the piece LM pressed JF to say if those “patients who’d been in chronic pain who’d been forced to travel to England for pain relief” would be reimbursed their travel expenses. JF pointed out that normally that would be discussed with the relevant health board BEFORE any travel had taken place.
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SPONGERS WANT THEIR MONEY BACK WHEN OTHERS STAYED IN S OTLAND TO BE TREATED
BUT LABOUR USUALLY BEND ALL RULLES
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Good for you John, hopefully somebody in the National runs a piece on it, this propaganda outfit are long overdue being exposed beyond your blog…
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Good work John, hope they do response appropriately. They really need to be held to account and answer some serious questions. It’s Scotland who should be asking the questions for sure, not having to repeatedly answer the same questions from the story tellers in the ‘media’, day in day out.
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BBC Scotland operate entirely different in Scotland and England.
There is a persistent attempt by BBC Scotland to involve the Scottish government in any and every issue, no matter how trivial—-while in England the Health Minister seldom gets questioned, even when health scandals involve thousands of patients.
The reason for this? Scotland is both a political and broadcasting colony.
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Its often interesting to compare Radio4 / Radio2 news with BBC’s radio station in Scotland.
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I was referred to chronic pain buy onco surgeon earlier this yr & I got a letter within weeks to call them as they had appointment for me. Very fast response I felt…Then we went into lock down. Another of my surgeons was trying to retire for 3 yrs & the NHS bean counters were saying they could not find a replacement. She was down to working a few days per week. She told me it was not that they couldn’t find replacement..they did not want to pay someone else her salary! She said it is all about saving money. There are loads of jobs not being filled because the bean counters will not fill them in order to save money..to make themselves look good! They try to get the job done by lower level qualified staff- but not give them any more money for it! This is not the SGs doing but NHS management!
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ONLY WAY TO STOP THIS
DISGRACEFUL SETTING UP OF FAKE STORIES
AND MISLEADING SCOTS NO MATTER THEIR POLITICS
IS TO CLOSE DOWN THIS BROADCASTER
TO OPEN FACE LIE TO YOUR PAYING VIEWERS
IS THE LOW OF THE LOW
NO MATTER YOUR POLITICAL PARTY
IF YOU ARE EMPLOYED BY A PUBLIC FUNDED BROADCASTER
YOU SHOULD NEVER LIE OR DECEIVE THEM
AND AN EVEN GREATER DISGRACEFUL ACT
IS THE MANAGEMENT OF THIS PUBLIC FUNDED BROADCASTER WERE FULLY AWARE OF THE LIES AND DECEPTION WITHIN PROGRAMME
CLOSE DOWN WOULD BE BEST WAY TO RESOLVE
I AM SURE BBC WILL NOT COMPLY ON THIS
ONLY OTHER SOLUTION IS FOR ALL CITIZENS WHO ARE
DISGUSTED WITH BROADCASTER
TO STOP PAYING THE TV LICENCE
THEY ARE RECKLESS WITH OUR MONEY
SO WHY NOT PUNISH THEM THIS WAY
NO MONEY NO WORK NO. LIES NO DECEPTION
EVERYONE ONE IS A WINNER
APART FROM LYING EBC
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That person, I refuse to give her the title of journalist, seems well named, having to “stalk” her sources
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