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Your subscription will end shortly. Please update your billing details here to continue enjoying your access to the most informative and considered journalism in the UK. But they were, and still are, blatantly hostile to Scottish Independence. The Scottish Government ignores the fact that Scotland's existing membership of the EU through the UK's membership is the worst calamity to hit Scotland since I will have more to say about the EU in later columns — if Electric Scotland will continue to publish them.
Friday, 12 March Newsnet Scotland launches new site. The Newsnet Scotland website is currently showing a message informing readers of a breach of security and the site is apparently being moved to a new. This message is misleading and I would urge regular visitors to Newsnet Scotland to continue to visit the site at the. No comments:. Saturday, 6 March Brian's Angry Debate. One section of the show featured a question from an audience member that asked: Has the SNP been unfairly excluded from the forthcoming TV general election debates?
RC: "Well yes; and I.. But the truth of the matter is actually it's democracy that is let down by this decision and I'm sorry that the BBC has got itself into this mess RC tries to continue: " We're having We are having very productive discussions with SKY, which is Which is more than can be said for the BBC BT: "It resulted in a 90 minute programme going out on SKY exactly the same as the BBC" RC is now forced to have an argument with the supposedly impartial BT whilst at the same time give her answer to the original question posed by the audience member.
RC tries to continue: "Brian, I realise that you want to pursue the party line on this The other one will be about economy about half of which will be relevant to Scotland but unless they are going to blank out the bits that are not relevant to Scotland RC continues: " BT: "Thanks for that - " some members of the audience burst into applause, cheering can be heard BT flippantly: "Enthusiastic applause and even a little cheer there - well done" Michael Connarty then starts speaking Brian Taylor overstepped the mark by deciding to ditch impartiality and allow his own opinions to overrule his professionalism.
That on at least one occasion he was wrong simply compels his error of judgement. He did not employ devils advocate but rather became a de-facto member of the panel and continually hectored and interrupted Roseanna Cunningham as she tried to answer a question.
It is clear that Brian Taylor thought that the BBC were being singled out by Roseanna Cunningham but it was wholely wrong for Brian Taylor to effectively abuse his position as a BBC employee in order to involve himself in the debate. Roseanna Cunningham was not allowed to finish sentences and was routinely spoken over by Taylor, this had the effect of diminishing the points that she was trying to make. Moreover Taylors opinions were at times subjective and he may well have influenced many undecided voters or listeners by his repeated interjections.
You can listen to the show by clicking HERE , the part in question starts at 24 mins 40 secs in. Murphy also suggested that the public ought to inform on those they suspected of being benefit cheats, with rewards being offered in return for such clandestine snooping. In that instance the roles may well have been reversed with many of the indigenous non white South Africans having to adhere to and endure such a draconian system. Funny though that the press have appeared reluctant to headline these attacks and to pursue Mr Murphy over his very clear error of judgement remember those?
Seems that Scots unlike the Welsh are to be denied a referendum on their constitutional future because according to Labour it is a waste of money - meanwhile the Scotland Office are happy to spend the equivalent of the cost of a referendum every single year. This follows on from the revelations in Newsnet Scotland over Jim Murphy's fondness for self promotion. Most of you by now will be aware that Alex Salmond has suspended plans to have lunch in the Holyrood restaurant with guests who had donated funds to the SNP.
The donations were made at a fundraising dinner held in a Glasgow restaurant by Scottish Asians for Independence. Politicians have for decades been dining with donors, supporters and of course lobbyists in canteens and restaurants at both Holyrood and Westminster. The gist of the article was that this was tantamount to the auctioning of parliamentary resources and might break Holyrood rules because the lunch would take place in the Holyrood restaurant. Indeed the SNP later explained that they had held other fundraising events that offered the same opportunity for donors to have lunch with Mr Salmond.
Quite amazingly the SNP were now being accused of selling access to ministers. Well Newsnet Scotland decided to have a quick look into Labour and auctions and we find that Mr Gray has just lunched, sorry launched a very large stone in a fragile glass house. At a fundraising event in Labour held an auction where bids were invited for the chance to play tennis with Tony Blair; have John Prescott as your personal waiter or even dine with Alistair Campbell.
At the Labour conference in Brighton in September last year the BBC reported that Labour held a fundraising auction where the highest bidder was offered tea for two with minister Nick Brown. And of course we have the revelations that East Lothian council have for years been providing the local Labour party free use of council resources for their annual fundraising barbecue. However, what of The Herald? Well, at the time of writing The Herald have produced an incredible nine articles thus far on a lunch that never happened.
They have come in for no small amount of criticism over this and even went as far as to publish in their editorial a defence of their running of this story. This was a remarkable acknowledgement of the criticism the newspaper has received recently over their perceived adoption of an anti-SNP stance. Our doggedness has prompted accusations in Nationalist circles that we are anti-SNP.
Nothing could be further from the truth. We are an independent newspaper that scrutinises each party on its record in a disinterested way. A party that is in government comes under the greatest scrutiny because it holds the levers of power and is held to account because voters have put their trust in it to act on their behalf.
It is what many perceive to be evidence of a manipulation of some news items whilst at the same time the suppressing or failing to provide prominence to other items. One of the nine articles is penned by Tom Gordon and is headlined: 'going, going, gone Light hearted chat amongst guests is quoted as though inappropriate and jokes are quoted as though serious statements.
Pejorative terms are used in order to paint a less than flattering image of those who attended; in short the article is a clear attempt at cheapening both the event participants and the event itself.
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