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Friday 16 October 2009

IS THE BBC ALSO BIASED AGAINST THE SNP?

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The Scots Nats have a real bee in their bonnet about bias at the BBC. (That's rich, coming from me!!) Witness today's entertaining tussle between Alex Salmond and Anita Anand on The Daily Politics, following a piece by news reporter Adam Fleming.
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The report featured (as usual) the pro-SNP singer Pat Kane (of Hue and Cry fame), as well as an anti-independence businessman and a skeptical academic. What particularly got Big Al's goat though was the straw poll young Adam conducted in a carriage on the Glasgow underground. Less than a third supported independence, and when the show of hands came for those in support of the union, Adam Fleming cried "Ooh, a big majority don't want independence in this carriage!"
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Alex Salmond was at his most sarcastic in the exchanges that followed, describing the straw poll as "highly scientific" and began his interview with the words "Wow! The usual impartiality of the British Brainwashing Corporation at its best!"
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Tell us about it Alex!
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The sparring between the SNP and the BBC continued on Sunday 18th October's The Politics Show: Scotland, when Alex Salmond reacted to a report from the lovely Catriona Renton with these words: "Quite a remarkable report. You'd almost think it were a Labour councillor reporting from our conference!"
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Tell us about it Alex!

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