In the first of many media reports on the Covid-19 Inquiry, that will distort the truth, deceive audiences and upset relatives, BBC Scotland has:
Some care home residents may have been “neglected and left to starve” during the pandemic, Scotland’s Covid Inquiry is expected to hear.
Some care home residents may have been “neglected and left to starve” during the pandemic, Scotland’s Covid Inquiry is expected to hear.
The data presented in the graph above and in the full report Excess deaths from all causes, involving and with dementia as the underlying cause: Scotland 2020-2022 from the Scottish Government in November 2022, is clear about the cause of death.
There is no mention of malnutrition anywhere in the report.
Source:
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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Lets get this publicly funded tv channel , Taken to task over their deceitful reporting on all Scottish matters
No more Scottish money should be paid to them.
PLEASE PLEASE ALL WHO WANT INDEPENDENCE STOP PAYING THEIR LICENCE FEE
ITS KEEPING THEM LYING TO YOU
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That BBC article is reporting accusations as fact. I’m not sure that’s how an inquiry works.
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I thought death from neglect and starvation was par for the course in some private nursing homes.
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‘Some care home residents may have been “neglected and left to starve” during the pandemic, Scotland’s Covid Inquiry is expected to hear.’
The word ‘may’ is working very hard in that extract – and moreover it’s an anticipated ‘may’ into the bargain!
Does the BBC tell how many and which care homes are expected to be accused? One neglected and starved resident would be one too many but does the BBC tell what ‘some’ is expected to mean? Or is the accusation of co-ordinated, nationwide neglect and starvation?
So presumably anyone can tell the BBC in advance of an accusation he/she intends to make at an evidence gathering session for the Inquiry. This can be published with no right of reply for anyone.
As well as reporting it in advance – as ‘expected’ news – the BBC can then if it chooses report it a second time when the accusation is actually made.
But will the BBC publish the accuser’s response to challenge from the Inquiry’s legal team, will it publish rebuttals or countering evidence? Indeed will it publish any positive evidence to the Inquiry?
Will it return to its coverage of each particular accusation when, after due process, the Inquiry has reached considered verdicts on each one?
Is the BBC aware that the purpose of an Inquiry is to take, evaluate and then conclude, blaming where justified and making recommendations. Accusations are just inputs – assertions – until assessed. This kind of journalistic output – without serious accompanying caveats – makes a mockery of the Inquiry process.
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Beyond attempting to distort perceptions over what the Covid Inquiry is about, the ‘Care-Home’ piece alongside the ‘Winter death toll” article looks suspiciously like a new propaganda gambit on a “let’s scare the old folks” theme.
Yet as Stewart observed above, there are huge questions hanging over why BBC Scotland published it at all https://archive.ph/pmwpB
I note however that the article has now been replaced by an Andrew Picken piece titled “Scottish Covid Inquiry: Care home residents like ‘exhibits'”, sticking to the “let’s scare the old folks” theme.
It also serves as a filler on the BBC/Scotland/Politics page to make it appear less glacial in keeping up with Scotland’s politics, whilst still blocking news which Elizabeth House prefers not be reported.
Interesting to note that the BBC/Scotland/Politics page now has articles only up to 1 day old, even if one is on Tardis time – Who knew James Cook read the criticisms and comparisons made on this blog…
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It’s funny how so many of those outwith Scotland accuse the BBC of lying, bias and misinformation on matters that they, who oppose the BBC, deem to be significant to them…….indeed that they then say should result in consequences for the BBC.
Yet these very same people who usually publicly criticise the BBC on matters that they say they (supposedly) support, and where they proclaim that the BBC is promoting fake news upon these matters……they, as opposers of the BBC, would then stand 100% behind everything that the BBC reports upon Scottish politics and Scotland (to include all matters connected to independence) as being truthful, balanced and information that was reliable…..I guess that’s what happens when you are ‘selective’ in your condemnation……indeed one could argue there was a consensus between both the BBC and those who otherwise condemn them via all and any matters that relate to Scotland and it’s politics…..also known as being hypocritical….but then that is something Scotland always has to endure…..the proclamations of hypocrites. (via individuals, political parties and too a UK owned MSM)……..
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