This morning in a short teaser for their pals at Disclosure Scotland who will be, later tonight, doing a special on obesity, Reporting Scotland find time for the above little bookend comment implying responsibility.
In the longer online report, there is no mention of the Scottish Government.
Regardless of whether it is conscious propaganda or a subconscious tendency, the longer term impact on viewers is the association of the Scottish Government with another problem that they are not directly responsible for and an association of a kind which BBC England, Wales and Northern Ireland rarely make with their governments.
A month-long study reported here found that BBC Scotland was very significantly, by a ratio of 2:1, more likely to mention the Scottish Government or the SNP within reports of problems than BBC Wales was to mention the Welsh Government or the Labour Party. Similarly, but less often, BBC Scotland was also more likely to report that the Scottish Government had been, for example, ‘accused’ of being responsible directly for a problem and to offer a platform for opposition parties to criticise the devolved government. BBC Wales did not ever platform opposition parties.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
UK sugar tax. Ban on some additives to process foods. Obesity counselling. Ending poverty. More equality. The UK the most unequal place in the world. Tax on booze and tobacco. Lower consumption.
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Unconscious , semi-conscious , conscious … bias is bias !
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I feel we need a snappy “oops, the BBC missed…” hashtag on twitter to compliment your posts John. From missing humza getting an award, positive mentions in various reports, a nice new Italian embassy. Tory funding and expenditure at their Edinburgh HQ we could highlight some issues and poke fun at the same time. Sadly beyond my IT skills and eyesight issues but worth a thought for someone?
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I suppose I would be considered by my GP to be obese. It has more to do with me retiring, suddenly becoming sedentary and eating far too many kitkats. It has feck all to do with the SNP.
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Have a break, get independence. 🙂
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I don’t know Joe, SNP fails to prepare workshy pensioners to make healthy life style choices? Nicola sturgeon once pictured eating a KitKat? Call Kaye will be on your case for sure once she’s convinced us that a labour tax on alcohol is good, but minimum pricing bad and useless
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Oh, I know what I call Kaye, alright.
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A month-long study reported here found that BBC Scotland was very significantly, by a ratio of 2:1, ……..
John,
This reminds me of your study regarding the BBC you did way back then nothing has changed it is still reporting SNB bad the only time change will come is with Independence and the likes of Cook,Campbell and the rest go to England.
As another thought do you think the HS2 fiasco around compensation will end up as a mini Post Office scandal I see that farmers who want to get land back will have to pay the going rate not what it was when the lost it.
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Interesting point. Will watch with interest
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I’m looking forward to the day BBC Scotland output is exposed as linked to the mental health, alcohol issues, etc., of Scots….
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BBC Scotland’s website is reporting a grant scheme to encourage tree planting was facing cuts of more than £32 million.
I have found a solution to raising money and resume planting.
End these schemes 👇by devolving the relevant reserved powers.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-forestry-strategy-20192029/pages/4/
“Income from timber sales in the UK is free of income and corporation tax and growing timber is exempt from capital gains tax. After two years of ownership, commercial woodlands qualify for 100% business property relief from inheritance tax.”
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I just caught up with this “Climate change target warning over forestry cuts” by Kevin Keane, BBC Scotland’s environment correspondent, and wondered whether the idiot who wrote the headline was Kevin himself or it was “suggested”
https://archive.ph/sRscX
I’ll ignore Kevin’s asinine (“suggested” ?) comment of an overland ‘torpedo’ to climate change, but do pay attention to his most deliberate “Woodland Trust Scotland and an industry body..” – Note the AND… As if the ‘industry body’ is not joined at the hip with the same greedy people who paid to create Woodland Trust as a ‘Charity’ across the UK – It took me 2 minutes, Kevin Keane as a purported professional journalist would have found this in less than 30 seconds but chose not to because he is part of the problem…
As a young man I went through the Forestry experience and loved every minute of it both in the Commission and private estates in D&G, an industry covering thousands of sq miles where it was all about husbandry, growing and replenishing the crop….
Then came the money men in the 1980s/90s with their tax breaks and perverse company names such as ‘Fountain Forestry, then it all changed as FUCK YOU was carved across traditional sheep grazing lands for nascent private forestries only interested in investment and returns…
I had occasion to meet such an investor many years later, where he openly admitted the trees could burn to the ground for all he cared, his money was already made – With an abiding love of the environment and the role of trees in our lives, I simply could not fathom the logic of greed, and am too old and disinclined to learn how to justify it now with a climate emergency closing in.
So yes I agree, end these schemes by any means available, it is a despicable abuse of our environment.
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Did you know that Ian Price (ambassador-Woodland Trust Scotland) was the General Secretary for (Scottish) Labour from April 2013-November 2014.
He was also North East Scotland Organiser for Labour from June 1995-September 1997.
He was also Constituency Office Manager for Anne Begg (Labour) from September 1997-September 1999.
Therefore in my humble opinion from this evidence Woodland Trust Scotland seem to have an Anti SNP slant on there board!!!
Maybe it is just me………….not!!!
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BBC reported on his Labour post in 2013…..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-21305073
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Seems like he played a big part in “better together” campaign!!!
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Such organisations being presented in the article as impartial and independent observers is by far the more disturbing aspect, they have vested interests in availing of grants, but we’ve been here before with BBC Scotland.
Here they are presented as being concerned over the climate and SG ‘targets’ being met, when their sole concerns are financial, and it would appear, political.
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How very odd – Half an hour before my original comment, the Kevin Keane nonsense had grown not only a comments section but had accumulated the first 8 of the 189 comments on show this morning, naturally all of the ‘Nicola ate my budgie’ variety…
Of all that ails Scottish society as a result of London tightening the purse strings, are we really expected to take ‘climate’ … ‘trees’ …… ‘targets’…. for next year as serious Kevin ?
Are we really expected to feel sorry for a group of rich investors exploiting tax loopholes NOT looking forward to availing of 32 million in grants next year, in preference to what Scottish society needs to survive Kevin ?
It takes many years for trees to grow and become active CO2 absorbers, all it takes is a quick phone call from a lobby group to Pacific Quay to grow a story from nothing, left to fester on the Politics page, when it should be in the Business section…
Pathetic….
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And of course the obligatory sales pitch on the Scotland web-page https://archive.ph/vsUdW
Sadly for honest programme makers, having put so much effort into creating the piece, to see the potential audience shy away due to the slightest hint of bias from BBC Scotland (and they do have a well deserved reputation for bias and propaganda), must be utterly depressing…
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At least the SNP Gov are planting trees. More than the rest ever did. The SNP Gov buying back land for the community. More than the rest ever did. More home grown wood and timber.
The Press are total hypocrites. Along with the rest of them. ‘The right to roam.’ The tourist industry making £Billions.
Scotland one of the most visited place in the world. Beautiful landscape and fantastic greenery and scenery.
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if all you avid viewers of the Beeb were to stop, these figures would be even worse, if that’s possible, from the National.
A mere 200 people watched The Seven, the 15-minute news programme on the BBC Scotland channel, on Sunday, January 7.
Meanwhile, The Nine – the channel’s hour-long show – only reached 1700 viewers last Wednesday, about 0.1% of those watching television at the time.
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Doctor’s letter to consultant. ‘They say they eat like a bird – An eagle.’
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