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Mainstream Media Distortion

How The BBC Lost The Plot On Brexit

"No one should praise journalists who speak out when, and only when, they are certain that public opinion is with them. Not just journalists, but anyone engaged in political life should learn from the BBC’s abject performance. Whether you are on the left or the right, there will be times when you will be frightened of saying what you believe for fear of offending your friends, breaking a taboo or going against the ephemeral consensus of the day. Allow that fear to dominate you and you will end up like the BBC: platitudinous, frightened, and irrelevant." Nick Cohen.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/07/12/how-the-bbc-lost-the-plot-on-brexit/

BBC Scotland Reporter At It Again?

A BBC Scotland reporter has been criticised on social media after using his twitter account to promote a newspaper article backing Theresa May.  Nick Eardley, who is BBC Scotland’s Westminster correspondent, retweeted a link to a Daily Mail article written by two Scottish Tory MPs. The article, written by Tory MPs Alister Jack and Paul Masterton, urged backing for Theresa May’s Brexit plan. Both MPs had been on the opposite sides of the Brexit debate. In his tweet, Eardley wrote: “Scotland’s answer to Anna Soubry and Jacob Rees Mogg (well sort of…) team up to back the PM on Chequers agreement”
https://indyref2.scot/bbc-scotland-reporter-criticised-over-back-may-article-promo-tweet