BBC Bias (Vol 246)

[Fulmar]

Not an actual BBC report but on Twitter which probably reached many more people anyway
Posted at 12:21 23 Jan12:21 23 Jan
A short suspension

We have a short suspension due to a disturbance in the gallery.
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A man in the public gallery has started shouting about the IRA and “brigadier Sturgeon”, and Parliament is briefly suspended while he’s huckled out by the police


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[Goodfellers]

Not an actual BBC report but on Twitter which probably reached many more people anyway
Posted at 12:21 23 Jan12:21 23 Jan
A short suspension


We have a short suspension due to a disturbance in the gallery.
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Philip Sim
✔@BBCPhilipSim





A man in the public gallery has started shouting about the IRA and “brigadier Sturgeon”, and Parliament is briefly suspended while he’s huckled out by the police


556
12:20 - 23 Jan 2020
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That doesn't scream 'Hatred and bile' which Corky seems to love posting about. No where near sensationalist enough for his tastes.

Did you see the picture of the two protesters? Hardly paramilitary gear, or if it is, half the young men I see in Lidl Thurso must be 'paramilitaries'

I've come to the conclusion Corky isn't happy unless he is spreading hate, fear and propaganda. Sad sad individual.

[mi16]

Not a great similarity.

[mi16]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220350666322972672

Audit of the protest here, cant say I disagree with what he said

[Corky Smeek]

This thread was started to allow discussion of the BBC's non-reporting of the incident in parliament yesterday. In particular the BBCs lack of impartiality.


The Unionists on here don't want to discuss that, of course. It would mean them having to confront some uncomfortable and self-evident truths about how the BBC conducts itself. So, as ever they attack the message and try to diminish the importance of the issue. BBC Bias has been recorded, documented, analysed and published by Prof. John Robertson and this latest example, whilst one of the worst, is only one in a very, very long list.


The BBC has a duty to report news. It is still, so far as I know, primarily a broadcasting organisation. If alleged paramilitary activists invade our nation's parliament to the potential fear and alarm of all those inside I think that deserves a mention on the news not just the Twitter account of one of their reporters. And I think all reasonable, law-abiding people would agree with me.


So there we have it. Alleged para-militarists invade the Scottish parliament. None of the Unionists on here have condemned either the incident; the participants or the BBC. It leaves one wondering what would have had to have happened for them to do so. How extreme does the threat have to be before they would concede that the matter was serious. The only conclusion that, I think, one can draw from the reaction to the incident, by some of those on here, is that nothing about the matter worries them and that we should all get on with our reasonably happy lives. The threat to democracy, by the lack of reporting, and to the safety of parliamentarians is of no consequence to them. It is all the more surprising since many of the Unionists on here are Tories (the self-proclaimed party of law and order) and yet still they seem unperturbed by what has gone on. Curiously though, despite these invaders causing fear and alarm in our parliament by their threatening behaviour and by shouting and bawling at SNP MSPs one commentator on here accuses me of spreading "hate, fear and propaganda". I think we can all see who is doing that.


Oh, and finally, it will be interesting to see the contrast in BBC coverage next time somebody in the street says something rude to Jackson Carlaw.

[Goodfellers]

Corky, corky corky.....in the words of the late great Michael Winner...Calm down dear.

It was a 'non' incident...YOU seem to be the only person perturbed by it.

The news outlets have serious news to report.

[Corky Smeek]

Corky, corky corky.....in the words of the late great Michael Winner...Calm down dear.

It was a 'non' incident...YOU seem to be the only person perturbed by it.

The news outlets have serious news to report.

The fact that you don't see the irony is really pretty sad. If people aren't perturbed it's because they don't know about it because the BBC didn't report it. That is the problem in a nutshell. You have just proved my point. But, I realise it is your best interests to have it that way.

The second worrying thing in your post is that you do not think paramilitary activists invading our parliament is serious news. Deary me, will it take someone being injured or worse for you to take such matters seriously.

[mi16]

1. its in here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-s...1175452/page/3

2. They were wearing green coats, not uniform

Now bore off

[Fulmar]

I expect that they would have been checked for weapons and suicide belts on the way in and since there was nothing amiss, they were allowed in! It was dismissed by those present as a non event, including Nicola Sturgeon.
In a democracy, people go into parliament and they heckle and how is anyone supposed to know that they were IRA sympathisers when there was nothing before they opened their mouth to indicate that.

[mi16]

This thread was started to allow discussion of the BBC's non-reporting of the incident in parliament yesterday. In particular the BBCs lack of impartiality.


The Unionists on here don't want to discuss that, of course. It would mean them having to confront some uncomfortable and self-evident truths about how the BBC conducts itself. So, as ever they attack the message and try to diminish the importance of the issue. BBC Bias has been recorded, documented, analysed and published by Prof. John Robertson and this latest example, whilst one of the worst, is only one in a very, very long list.


The BBC has a duty to report news. It is still, so far as I know, primarily a broadcasting organisation. If alleged paramilitary activists invade our nation's parliament to the potential fear and alarm of all those inside I think that deserves a mention on the news not just the Twitter account of one of their reporters. And I think all reasonable, law-abiding people would agree with me.


So there we have it. Alleged para-militarists invade the Scottish parliament. None of the Unionists on here have condemned either the incident; the participants or the BBC. It leaves one wondering what would have had to have happened for them to do so. How extreme does the threat have to be before they would concede that the matter was serious. The only conclusion that, I think, one can draw from the reaction to the incident, by some of those on here, is that nothing about the matter worries them and that we should all get on with our reasonably happy lives. The threat to democracy, by the lack of reporting, and to the safety of parliamentarians is of no consequence to them. It is all the more surprising since many of the Unionists on here are Tories (the self-proclaimed party of law and order) and yet still they seem unperturbed by what has gone on. Curiously though, despite these invaders causing fear and alarm in our parliament by their threatening behaviour and by shouting and bawling at SNP MSPs one commentator on here accuses me of spreading "hate, fear and propaganda". I think we can all see who is doing that.


Oh, and finally, it will be interesting to see the contrast in BBC coverage next time somebody in the street says something rude to Jackson Carlaw.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-s...1175452/page/3

it was reported
Its just that it was a couple of normal guys having a dig at Nicola, not really worthy of much coverage at all.
Also the Scottish Government dont like to advertise protests in their gaff as it may encourage others to do the same.
The only outrage I see from it is from you.

[mi16]

I've come to the conclusion Corky isn't happy unless he is spreading hate, fear and propaganda. Sad sad individual.

No, I cant say I share that opinion....
Oh wait, news just in...yes, yes I can say that I share your opinion

Grade A walloper extraordinaire is Corky Smeek

[Corky Smeek]

No, I cant say I share that opinion....
Oh wait, news just in...yes, yes I can say that I share your opinion

Grade A walloper extraordinaire is Corky Smeek

And, right on cue and just to illustrate my point about the Unionists' reaction to this story and their attempts to diminish it the abuse is ramped up a level.

[Fulmar]

Well, I actually wonder if it was not considered to be that worthy of note by those in the parliament themselves since, as I said earlier, they handled it well and the advice given to Mr Mason was 'don't engage'. After all, why give publicity to those 2 guys- that's what they wanted, the oxygen of publicity, so why gratify them.
It's not been a cover up or a secret- it is out there in the media and Philip Sim appears to work for the BBC, I assume.
Lastly, the outburst from those men was very anti-SNP and I'm sorry, Corky, but given what you believe and write on here, I think that you would have been laying into the BBC if they had reported on it as just showing their (according to you) anti SNP bias. The BBC can't win whatever they do in your eyes at least.

[Fulmar]

If I had seen those men, I would not have associated them in any way with anything by the way that they were dressed.
According to the account I read in the Scotsman:
The incident at First Ministers Questions was later dismissed as a "bizarre intervention" by a spokesman for Nicola Sturgeon.

[mi16]

the guys a moonhowling crackpot, best treated with contempt