Media Bias in the Scottish Independence Referendum

[ggreig]

Over the last few years, it's often been something about the reporting of the independence debate that's spurred me to write about politics on this (generally) non-political blog. (Hopefully soon I'll have nothing more to say.)

Here's an interesting short online documentary featuring Professor John Robertson talking about his findings of bias in BBC

Comments

[tobyaw]

Your man Robertson makes some good points, although I think he ends up sounding a bit loopy towards the end of the video

[ggreig]

Interesting take on it. I've never seen all those things (particularly the big business/SME distinction) pulled together to make a point about large organisations, and it makes a lot of sense to me

[ggreig]

Meant to add: if you haven't seen it already, Derek Bateman's blog has some interesting stuff about the BBC from a former insider. In particular this string of articles from around October last year, not long after he'd retired as a presenter and come out for independence:

• Just another body out the door...
• BBC...more news
• That Kirsty Wark learned me everything I know...
• Grumpy...me?
• Okaye Dokaye...