By Professor John Robertson OBA
One of the top stories on the BBC Scotland website today is:
Murder and mayhem: The story of Glasgow’s deadly gang feud
Has there been a surge in gangland killings? No, they’re just advertising a podcast about murders in 2006, nearly 20 years ago.
What is the news that their royal charter obliges them to inform the folk of Glasgow about?
That graph above but, specifically for Glasgow:
Glasgow City has witnessed a relatively larger fall in homicides than Scotland as a whole in the last 20 years. Over the latest five year period from 2019-20 to 2023-24, there have been 47 homicides in Glasgow, a 71% reduction compared to 162 for the five year period from 2004-05 to 2008-09. This compares to a 49% reduction in Scotland as a whole between these periods.
47 is also just over a quarter of 162. That’s some reduction. Newsworthy?
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Was this reported at the time?
(It is from October 2023)
https://www.scotland.police.uk/what-s-happening/news/2023/october/homicides-in-scotland-2022-23/
“Police Scotland maintains world leading homicide detection rate”
It goes on to say
“Police Scotland’s 100 per cent homicide detection rate means that every one of the 605 murders committed since the inception of the single national service in 2013, has been solved.”
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https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/11/26/scottish-homicide-rate-falls-23-to-10-below-that-in-england-wales-and-more-than-100-solved/
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Mr Taggart, Mr Taggart, thurs bin a murrder!!
Hush son, it’s just the passing o’ yon Mr Britnat, s’no a murdur. He wiz auld ‘n din.
Will wi see it oan the news, Mr Taggart?
Naw, son. The BEEB in Scotland only report the news London likes. News fae auld Scotia isnae news at aw’, an’ they like tae bury it deep. Efter the murrdurs, n’ ferries n’ cats up a tree. Efter Starwars, an’ Russtbelt and Cauld-ham have their moans and gripes.
Oh, n’ ye’ll git a headline then a reporter fae London’ll tell ye whit the news in Scotland means. Fae fower hundred mile awaw. Clever stuff, eh?
Course once we are independent, we will have tae report an’ figure out fur ourselves whit the news is and what it means fur aw’ folk, and for that we will need real reporters, rather than colonial cardboard cutouts.
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Here’s another Police story on an update about a non update.
Some of the newspapers (and too the BBC) in Scotland have headlined a non update on an ongoing story that they have relished covering as a #SNPBAD story.
Headlines are:
The Scotsman ” Sturgeon still knows ‘nothing more’ about the Police operation”
The Herald is the exact same headline (on the bottom of front page) as The Scotsman.
The National (sister paper of The Herald) “Sturgeon: I know nothing more about police probe than when I was arrested”
So of course the BBC on their website has this as their top story on the Scottish Politics page and as the second top story on their main Scotland page.
This also gave them, the BBC, another opportunity to yet again cover and explain all about “Operation Branchform” just to ensure readers knew what this was and also why this was being done as in because the SNP were #BAD.
So how is this non update even considered appropriate as a front page story or as the top story on the BBC website of their Scottish Politics page?
As clearly this is a non story , as in it is one where there is no update to relate about it as an ongoing story.
So why and how is it then being promoted as a obvious (non) update by the media.
Why and How indeed.
Obviously she, Ms Sturgeon, had been asked by the media what is happening with this Police investigation , so that they, as a media, can then have an excuse to generate more on this story , all to remind people that the SNP are still #BAD in case some people have forgotten and were , as polls seem to be indicating, intending to vote SNP again in subsequent elections.
(This is a trick the media often deploy to generate a story that they have prompted as an excuse to constantly highlight something that they can then continue to attack the SNP with, such as this ongoing Police investigation into the SNP finances. Also they do the same with the multitude of stories they have produced about Scottish Ferries).
So they, the media, have then based their front page (non) story on Ms Sturgeon’s response which they, the media, have tried to sensationalise, as too have the BBC also, as in the same BBC who often source many of their #SNPBAD stories from a media that is obviously hostile towards the SNP (and Scotland too).
This is yet another regurgitated story where there is no new news to communicate but they have trapped Ms Sturgeon in asking her about it, she perhaps could have just said NO , but even then that would have allowed them as a media to still generate a non story about a non update.
NO news , it seems is, for the media in Scotland, still news if it involves the #SNP as being #BAD.
Meanwhile actual news involving Labour that is #BAD for Labour, is often regarded by that same media as NOT being news that is worth them reporting upon in their TV news programmes or indeed publishing in their newspapers.
Go figure why , but it is not rocket science the logic behind it.
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Knife crime in London killings increased 200 a year, under austerity.
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