Hospital water supply infection – Utterly dishonest change in what expert actually said, to fake the news, by Lisa Summers

By Professor John Robertson OBA

I didn’t spot this at the time, three days ago, and am very grateful to cuckooshoe for alerting me to it.

On 9th October, BBC Scotland’s Lisa Summers wrote:

‘No direct evidence‘ of hospital infection link, says medical chief. A senior medical director has told an inquiry there is no direct evidence that unusual infections in child cancer patients were linked to a Glasgow hospital building. Professor Alastair Leanord, the chief of medicine for diagnostics at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, was the lead infection control doctor in 2019.

He did not say ‘no direct evidence‘. He said:

I wouldn’t say there was nothing going on… all I’m saying is the data shows there is no evidence of direct transmission between the environment and the patient.

This is quite different. He’s saying unambiguously that there is no, no evidence at all of direct transmission between the environment [including water supply] and the patient. Summers, moved the word ‘direct’ to qualify the confident ‘no evidence’ assertion and make it more open to question, contrary to his finding. This is utterly dishonest and agenda-driven, fake news.

I’m tired complaining – you do it? https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint

Footnote – Lisa Summer’s appalling previous: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=Lisa

The OBA – https://scotsindependent.scot/?page_id=116

7 thoughts on “Hospital water supply infection – Utterly dishonest change in what expert actually said, to fake the news, by Lisa Summers”

  1. PLEASE PLEASE CAN YOU AND FRIENDS SEND ALL EMAIL CONTACTS

    within bbc & stv

    THEY NEED TO BE BROUGHT ‘DOWN A PEG, NO MORE HIDING BEHIND LIES
    WE MUST ANSWER THEIR UTTER LIES AND DECIET

    BEST WAY TO GET INTO THEIR WORLD IS BY SOCIAL MEDIA

    plus if we get enough of our INDY SUPPORTERS POTING TO THEM

    it might make them change.
    NO CHANCE OF THAT EH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. Just more propaganda from an organisation pretending to be a news broadcaster.

    Their deception over this report is no accident, its a deliberate distortion of what was said to try and damage the Scottish Health Service and its employees, for what?

    Crumbs off London’s table, trying to avoid redundancy, favours from Labour perhaps?

    One thing we can all do is not to pay them a single penny for a service that is not fit for purpose.

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  3. I am not saying that there is direct evidence of BBC journalists (sic ) being lying c*nts but there is no direct evidence that they are not – except their numerous reports on QUEH and Ferries and The SNP Government and ….

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    1. “RIP Alex Salmond”

      Indeed ArtyHetty.

      However some will neither let him rest in peace nor even acknowledge he has died.

      Both yesterday and now today we see who truly lacks any class as either a politician and as a media.

      Douglas Ross , the former Leader of the Tories in Scotland and former MP, chose not to acknowledge Mr Salmond’s death in his Twitter ‘X’ account and also chose not to offer his condolences to Mr Salmond’s family and friends either. (yet that is)

      Neither did Stephen Kerr Tory MSP. (Yet that is)

      It would not have been hypocritical of either of them to have done so , as an action by both of them , that would have been seen as both courteous and humane.

      Instead they both chose to be boorish, ungracious and crass in not acknowledging his death, or offering condolences to his loved ones, in either of their Twitter accounts as those who are both supposed to be Scottish MSP’s in the Scottish parliament.

      Murdo Fraser however did acknowledge Mr Salmond’s death but, as expected, he let himself down in politicising his tweet when he added at the end of his tweet that Mr Salmond was “in the end badly treated by his own party”.

      Which was not 100% accurate as currently his “own party” is Alba but I suspect that Murdo Fraser was referring to Mr Salmond’s former party the SNP. So instead of being dignified Mr Fraser also shows himself to be ungracious and crass too.

      Then of course we have had various tweets from other politicians from other political parties , many who in their Tweets, felt they just had to add the comment that they either “disagreed with him on the constitutional question”, “just disagreed with him” and also “had strong political differences with him” as if that was not already evident with who they were as a politician and too the opposition (pro UK) party they were in.

      So did they really need to state that at all in their tweet as most people would know that already !

      Then of course we also apparently had , though I have not personally read it, what some are saying is a “character assassination” in The Times from Kenny Farquharson.

      Which if that is the case then that surely says far more about both The Times and Kenny Farquharson than they tried, and failed, to say about their subject Alex Salmond.

      Who I would suggest, as a significant political figure, did far more in his career for Scotland than both the hack Kenny Farquharson and his trashy newspaper employer The Times have ever done for our country.

      A piece perhaps written in too much haste that failed to choose the appropriate tone and also appreciate , observe and respect the mood of much of the Nation at the news of his sudden death .

      Then of course who also perhaps chose to disrespect him as opposed to showing even a modicum of respect both to him and also to the family he leaves behind.

      Jeremy Corbyn tweeted about Mr Salmond’s death and his tweet was totally appropriate in that he avoided playing politics but instead was dignified and sincere in what he tweeted.

      Then to the BBC.

      BBC Scotland’s Lynsey Bews ‘analysis’ declared “Salmond craved the spotlight until the end”

      Then her colleague Glen Campbell wrote his ‘analysis’ on Mr Salmond that declared “Charming and entertaining with a less pleasant side”.

      One being a British supposed political correspondent and the other a British supposed political editor in the BBC Scotland news team but yet again both promoting their politically and constitutional partisan positions and their lack of class and objectivity in their so called ‘analysis’ of Mr Salmond.

      Which as ‘analysis’ chose to promote a negative aspect against someone regarded as hugely significant in Scottish politics but whose very recent death (12 October 2024) is seemingly not entitled to a degree of dignified remembrance by both of them who represent a national news (British) broadcaster in Scotland .

      Who as a broadcaster in Scotland for many years have very much badly served Scotland in their constant source of (mis)information and propaganda they badly disguised as news.

      Whose dominant news was and still is mainly negative news connected to Scotland and also to the party who have governed in Scotland since 2007, as in the SNP. (whilst protecting opposition parties and the UK as a state).

      It seems that even in his death so many of those who oppose independence are afraid to acknowledge his legacy and achievements for fear that somehow it will overshadow their preferred pro UK politics and also the side they support in the constitutional debate.

      That is how small minded so many of them are and thus it exposes their selfishness , their weakness ,their lack of propriety, their callousness and also very much their real fear when they cannot even, with his untimely death, commend his many former achievements as a successful politician and as an excellent former FM of Scotland.

      RIP Alex and yes I agree with you that ‘The dream shall never die”.

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