that experienced some of the worst disorder on Bonfire Night last year.
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Professor John Robertson OBA
This is not an SNP council, so of course, there is no mention that it is a Labour one being criticised here. The source? ‘Data’.
Not reported in the morning broadcast nor in the fuller online report, this from November 2024 looking back on 5 November 2024, the most recent data obviously:
Fireworks Night a ‘damp squib’ as offences plummet except in Pacific Quay
The BBC Scotland report on last night’s [5 November 2024] fireworks events is one of the simplest best examples of media bias and you could use it with 11 year-olds.
It’s so naked and simple, you might force a wee ironic snigger.
It opens with
Firefighters attacked on Bonfire Night as crews take 1,000 calls
and goes on with 32 (count them) paragraphs describing incidents, interspersed with images, including those of masked hooded youths with big fireworks.
Then and only then from paragraphs 33 to 36, we hear:
Overall, the force said the incidents of serious disorder had fallen this year.
As part of Operation Moonbeam, a police operation launched in 2020 to deal with disorder at this time of year, specialist resources were deployed 26 times on 5 November last year – this year there were 18 deployments.
The number of injured officers has also reduced significantly – 62 last year compared to one this year.
Assistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs, gold commander for Operation Moonbeam said challenging scenes had not escalated to mass disorder as it had last year.
BBC Scotland reporter – ‘It was a damp squib boss, what will we do?’
BBC Scotland News Editor (James Cook) – ‘There was some trouble. Drag it out and big it up as long as you can. Put the facts in briefly at the end so we can claim fairness and balance. No one reads our stuff all the way to the end.’
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Yes it seems a common theme now presumably adopted from Starwars to find at least one person that is adversely affected by something the SNP/Scot Government has done or isn’t doing. Last night we had STV show boating a man who apparently has a dilemma about whether to cancel his holiday to fund his hip replacement. Yes it is amazing that the media always find someone out there who has a sad story to tell about our very very bad Government.
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