It’s almost like they are reporting on a subject that they feel should be kept secret. Free democratic will in Scotland. The BBC and their pals still can’t seem to come to terms with it, unable to recognise that politically, things have changed in Scotland.
It’s been a long while since this changed and you’d think at some stage they’d switch on that they better start providing some sort of reporting of events which, if even only roughly, accurately describe what’s going on, but no. Stick firmly to imperial propaganda. All threats to the status quo, large or small, debunk with scary falsehood, sow doubt, minimise or ignore in the hope that it all just goes away.
It feels like, in the blinkered consciousness of the British state’s news and current affairs coverage of their subsumed Scotland, they are soothing themselves, providing self-comfort, by speaking to a mystical group of Scottish viewers in their reporting who now do not exist.
A group who somehow never rumbled that British New Labour’s representatives in Scotland and their current crop of phonies are just an extension of the late 20th century’s neo-liberal ambition, and then attainment of becoming just as much Tory in self-serving policy and blood lust as the Tories themselves.
A mystical group of viewers from the past who would have absolutely no problem with their Labour representatives saying in public that they detest the Tories and all they stand for.
A group which in fact would fiercely criticise anyone representing them in the chambers of power who had anything more favourable to say about Tory values other than they are heartless self-serving post-imperial nationalists (of the bad kind).
It feels like Mr Campbell, wee James, and the rest, start every report involving the SNP, independence generally or even anything that puts Scotland’s resources, industry, innovation or culture in a good light, with a subliminal message for the viewer.
That message is along the lines of ‘Look, I’ve got to report this, It’s not really for you and me, If we hang around long enough all of this will go away and we can get back to good old Labour versus Tory down in London again, the expenses will be great, all of our jobs here at Non-Specific Quay will be safe, in fact many of us will get back on the corporation promotion ladder again seeing as there’ll be no threat to our broadcasting services up here, you can relax and we’ll never need to bother about these separatist nutters again, but just bear with us, will you.’
The just-finished SNP Conference is one of dozens of examples of this that you could point at every single day. Speeches and important motions being passed, many to try and ameliorate the despicable damage caused by years of London mismanagement and incompetence, initiatives to put food in the bellies and heat in the bones of our children and auld folk. Projects to move us towards the targets for a greener economy.
All of it muzzled, not reported, minimised and ignored, due to a lengthy repetitive non-news witch-hunt to ‘out’ the First Minister of Scotland as a hate speechifier for saying publicly what every right-minded person with a heart and a conscience would naturally say about the Tory Party, a sentence that was a damn sight less controversial than most of us would say about them.
The sight of various members of the Union-flagged lapel badge-ringing Detestoclast, faking that they’ve been put off their foie gras and Bollinger by such an insult, was more than pathetic.
We see you. I think what the BBC and others are missing about this fictious audience they think they are providing a service to, is that audience is…… us.
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