BBC’s ‘The Context‘ aims to help viewers understand what is happening in the UK by revealing, comparing and contrasting, with what is happening elsewhere on the globe.
In Scotland, student journalists are taught that they should have both personalisation and context in their reports.
Personalisation might be an in-depth account of individuals directly affected by, for example, a delayed ambulance response. Students are taught that this helps viewers understand what these delays mean for the human beings who experience them. BBC Scotland staff love to do this bit.
Context would be how that one example compares with responses times across Scotland over time but not over small statistically non-significant periods such as one week AND with other parts of the UK. Student journalists are taught that this helps viewers understand how this issue is changing over time, improving or worsening, and how relatively good or bad it is across the UK. BBC Scotland staff do love to report a worsening over short periods of time but are less likely to look at longer term trends and can be contemptuous of comparison with other parts of the UK. Their presenter John Beattie has described the latter as ‘whataboutery.’
This site is committed to whitabootery.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
If Scotland has poorer stats than England/Wales, then that is NEWS.
If Scotland has better stats, then that is “whitabootery”, and any person foolish enough to assert this, is talked over or sneered at.
Nor does the BEEB in Scotland invoke “context” as a normal journalistic tool, and personalisation is victim-trawling and grievance mongering by “poor me” sooth-moothy individuals.
BEEB North Brit escalates every “wrong” thing up to “SNP government” level. This simply does not happen in England/Wales.
In talking head shows the SNP are always outnumbered 3–1 (plus the presenter) while elsewhere balance is 1–1.
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Yes! Isn’t it peculiar that, whenever context is raised in HR, the opposition parties shake their heads as if it was of no consequence. Even though, and it’s important to remember this, if they had their way, we would be living with those consequences.
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BBC are foreign to statistics. They cannot analyse them. They cannot count or understand simple maths. The nonsense regurgitated does not make sense. £6Billion for that nonsense. Half is spent on redundant estate. Total UK Gov propaganda. Worldwide waste of public money. Trying to take people for fools, No wonder no one watches the ‘News’.
People get information shared on the internet. Especially the younger participants. Call out the Westminster Gov corruption and lies. GE coming soon. Independence supporters need to get out and vote. A higher turnout. To vote out the opposition.
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