The 11th January edition of BBC Scotland's flagship morning news programme, Good Morning Scotland, was so extreme in terms of anti-SNP propaganda that we decided to analyse key segments to highlight just how bad things were.

This thread deals with the newspaper review.
The review is broadcast every day at 0620. The newspaper chosen by presenter Laura Maxwell to lead the review that day was the Tory supporting, pro-Union Daily Telegraph.

You won't be surprised to learn it ran an anti-SNP front page.

Laura Maxwell read out the following headline.

"Fury as SNP Deputy leader puts referendum before Covid".

Maxwell went on to summarise the story, which was based on a BBC interview from the day before. But was the headline true?

John Swinney told the interviewer that "An independence referendum is an essential priority for Scotland because it gives us the opportunity to choose how we decide to rebuild as a country from Covid." At no point did John Swinney put an Indyref *before* Covid.
Swinney's comment has to be misrepresented and/or contorted to fit the Daily Telegraph headline. But the headline has just been read out on Good Morning Scotland.

And this isn't an isolated practice.

The same newspaper led the review the very next day.

A whole raft of anti-SNP headlines were read out from a string of pro-Union newspapers.

BBC Scotland is a publicly funded public service broadcaster. It is supposed to be impartial. How is it that it can be used to promote anti-SNP messages from pro-Union newspapers?

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The 11th January edition of BBC Scotland's flagship morning news programme, Good Morning Scotland, was so extreme in terms of anti-SNP propaganda that we decided to analyse key segments to highlight just how bad things were.

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Maxwell says: "The Deputy First Minister has rejected suggestions that the recovery from the coronavirus crisis should be a greater priority than an independence referendum."

But did John Swinney *really* reject such a suggestion?

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But was it?
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A thread exposing how BBC Scotland manipulated the findings of the 'Russia Report' to suppress criticisms of the UK Govt and manufacture fake news linking Russia to the 2014 Indyref campaign.

Page 1 of 12.
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2. Russian cash has flooded into UK politics.

3. There was some evidence Russia tried to discredit the 2014 Indyref result.
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Ten ways BBC Scotland could improve.

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1. Stop placing newspaper adverts on the main online news page.

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2. Stop reviewing newspapers on Good Morning Scotland.

Presenters provide a summary of a front page. The front page is frequently politically motivated and reflects the constitutional leanings of the newspaper. Pro-Union titles dominate. It is bias by proxy.
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