Good news for Scottish economy but not for BBC Scotland?
by Prof. John Robertson | 8 Feb 2019 | Image : Pixabay This morning, BBC Scotland News told us: ‘Scottish businesses struggled to hire new staff last month…’ Predictably, they didn’t look at this ‘news’, ...
BBC admits GDP item was “not clear as it should have been” but denies Reporting Scotland misled viewers
BBC Scotland has denied an item on Reporting Scotland, that claimed Scottish GDP growth was roughly equal to that of the UK … despite it being double, misled viewers. In a response to a complaint, the editor of Reporting Scotland claimed the ...
BBC Scotland happy to report ‘SNPbaaad’ fake news on productivity rankings
Broadcast 6 times this morning and on the website, BBC Scotland News report a David Hume ‘Institute’ study which wrongly claims: ‘[T]here had been “no progress” towards a target set by ministers in 2007 to improve Scotland’s ...
A BBC Scotland complaint – Douglas Fraser: GERS and the Scottish ‘deficit’
Complaint submitted on August 26th On August 23rd Good Morning Scotland broadcast an item following the publication of the GERS report. The item featured two questions posed by BBC Scotland’s business & economy editor Douglas ...
Film and TV spending in Scotland ‘surges’ by 300% meanwhile BBC continues to fleece us
First, a very quick good news story plucked from the variable content in Insider today: ‘The television and film industry spent £95 million in Scotland last year – the highest since records began – according to new figures. ... We read ...
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