How can BBC Scotland claim to be impartial when its political news output is so heavily dependent on pro-Union newspapers?

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1. All the coverage is like that. For a medium that has dwindling reach, newspapers hold an outsized influence. But it’s elites talking to elites hence the attempts at “social media” included stories are more often than not, vacuous. Same with the talking heads they get in: editors, reps from tax payer alliance (code for rich people
   Not wanting to pay tax), ex Tory MPs like Nadine.

2. I’d always expect the media to scrutinise and critique the government of the day.

3. We’d be getting pro union shite no matter what people in Scotland’s views are on the constitution.

4. Depressing isn’t it? All this pretence about living in a democracy, when our State Broadcaster parrots unquestionably the establishment media allegations, slurs, smears and innuendo and has done since the May 2007 Holyrood election when the SNP managed to cut through the propaganda just enough for folk to elect them by a single seat against the establishment Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition that expected to reign until the rocks melted.

   Now of course, pointing this out leads to the brigading we saw during the 2014 referendum, when Better Together bragged about their call centres stuffed to the gunnels parroting the lines fed to the likes of Baroness Pushup. Brown, Murphy, Darling et al.

   I’m presuming this is an AI creation, with the American voiceover that lends it outside neutral credibility. Bizarrely there is no neutral media in Scotland, any voices that do not support the pro-dependence hegemony are shunted further and further out in the edges of online debate.

   I’m not saying the SNP are flawless, they’ve missed opportunities all the way through their tenure as government to make life substantially better for folk in Scotland.

   If they want to be taken seriously as the party to bring Independence to Scotland, then by all means stand for Westminster, but do it on an abstentionist ticket. Let the electorate know up front that their candidates will fight to win the seats, attend the opening of Parliament then walk out en masse and return to their constituencies to work only there using the legitimate Westminster MP expenses to support the communities in their constituencies rather than continue with the impotent farce of a three day week in London and a day of photo opps in the constituency.