Unpatriotic Scots show little enthusiasm for treasured English traditions! BBC Scotland can’t miss the inflatable dolls at Celtic Park but miss the wider drop in hate crime post-Brexit
Two months ago, Police Scotland reported the lack of a spike in hate crime in Scotland contrasting notably you’d think with the much-reported spike in England and Wales. It had all the making of a good story:
‘Why has there not been a spike in hate crime in Scotland?’
I reported at the time:
The story got no coverage at all in the MSM and most media continued to refer to the spike as a wider UK phenomenon, covering Scotland by implication. I wrote to several editors on this and got no replies. BBC Scotland somehow missed this good news for Scotland, again. I suppose they don’t want our uppity Yes-supporters thinking there’s anything mature and civilised about Scotland. They’ll be going on about us all being ‘Jock Tamson’s Bairns.’ Oooooh, ‘Jock’, racism alert:
‘Yes-supporting Jocks accuse other Jocks of being Jocks!’
Then yesterday (22nd September) the Daily Mirror and the Scotsman got it, with:
‘Post-Brexit racism: The truth of hate crime boom after Leave vote and the telling area where incidents fell’
and:
‘Hate crimes in Scotland ‘fell after Brexit vote’
Oooh, I wonder where that ‘telling area’ is. I know, it’s Rotheram! It’s not Rotherham, it’s Scotland? No, those Jocks are always fighting! Weren’t there dozens dead and maimed after the last Old Firm game? There were none? I don’t believe that. It’s a liberal media cover-up. I wonder why the Mirror didn’t mention Scotland in the headline? Was it a wee tease or something else? I know, I’m paranoid, everybody says so.
When I wrote a piece a few days about how, relatively, Scotland had been sort of, just a wee bit, more tolerant of refugees than some other countries, my first attempt to publish it drew quite tetchy editorial comments that I was ignoring ‘the horrors of bigotry’ in Scotland and leaving out the truth of anti-refugee sentiment in Rothesay. Indyref2 then published it without requiring any changes. Make up your own mind:
Bias by omission is fiendishly difficult to prove. Actually it’s impossible to prove. If BBC Scotland does report something, I can have a dig but if they ignore it completely, we might all know what they’re up to, but they can always find an excuse along the lines of having no time because of the greater public interest in the queen or our collapsing (not-really) health service.
Today, on the 23rd September 2016, at 06.26, they gave us:
‘Figures obtained by the BBC show that more than 100 children have been trafficked into Scotland in the past six years and more than half of them came from Vietnam.’
Also we hear that Edinburgh City Council launched a survey into building after the school wall collapse saga. Not surprisingly the report was Labour Party and PFI-free. If ECC was SNP-led or if the PFI had been an SNP scheme, would that have changed the reporting, we wonder? After a murder story we got the ‘Did she or did she not?’ report on Kezia Dugdale’s missing vote. The report was from Kezia’s perspective and had crucial proof that she was there at the time but I’m not sure that will have helped her image. Finally there was a short report on a multi-faith conference at St Andrews University. Were there any Dudists (ref below) there? If not, I’m not interested. I am actually an ‘ordained’ priest of the Church of the Latter Day Dude. Do consider joining:
‘the slowest-growing religion in the world – Dudeism. An ancient philosophy that preaches non-preachiness, practices as little as possible, and above all, uh…lost my train of thought there. Anyway, if you’d like to find peace on earth and goodwill, man, we’ll help you get started. Right after a little nap.’
Also missing again was anything negative about Ruth Davidson or the Scottish Tories. Are Unionists including the BBC shifting ship to the Tories now? There’s plenty stuff about their double standards and wider hypocrisies. Find it yourself if you can bear to see photos of them. Have this for starters….yeuch!
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/ruth-davidson-branded-hypocrite-after-8789440
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Running Total:
I haven’t included any of today’s stories.
Running total 21 to 23/9/16 Number of reports
Bad news for SG/SNP 4
Good news for SG/SNP 1
Bad news for Labour 0
Good news for Labour 1
Bad news for CP 0
Good news for CP 0
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Older stuff:
Previous reports are all at:
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/
See especially:
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Sources:
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/8731/police-scotland-no-rise-hate-crime-scotland-brexit
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/post-brexit-racism-truth-hate-8787243
http://www.scotsman.com/news/hate-crimes-in-scotland-fell-after-brexit-vote-1-4237818
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