Thread by @SNPPeterhead

We often talk about the Mainstream Media "Gaslighting" the populace but what do we mean by that?

Well let's take a look at a recent example...

This was tweeted by @magnusllewellin of @thetimes... 1/6

Just looking at the headline (as most people never look past them these days) you'd think things were awful in Scotland, and better in England!

But if you read the article you'll see it was from a visit nearly 30 yrs ago!

thetimes.co.uk/article/027bad… 2/6

Let's imagine that a newspaper known to support Scottish Independence posted a headline similar to this image?... 3/6

Can you imagine the uproar? about how deliberately misleading we were being, trying to undermine the Union etc etc.

Can you imagine if the same Indy supporting newspaper posted a headline like this next image? 4/6

There would be hell on, and quite rightly so.

To be clear @magnusllewellin for @thetimes isn't lying, we're just not sure there is any value in publishing this story right now. Particularly as when the Dutch Queen was shocked Scotland was still under "full UK Control". 5/6

The fictional Indy Supporting newspaper wouldn't be lying if they published tweets referring to Chamberlain and Churchill... but they would be deliberately misleading.

@theTimes and @magnusllewellin aren't lying... but they are gaslighting. Call it out when you see it. 6/6

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