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Scotland is served by 37 national or daily newspapers. Not
one supports independence. (The only publication to
back a Yes vote is a weekly, the Sunday Herald.) Newspapers
have no duty to be fair or balanced, but when Scotland
faces a decision as big as the one it’ll make on September
18th, the press being so overwhelmingly skewed to one
side is a problem for democracy.
Our website, Wings Over Scotland, is biased too. We
support independence, because we think it’ll make Scotland
a wealthier, fairer, happier place. We think Scotland will
be better off choosing its own governments to solve its
problems and make the most of its opportunities, rather
than hoping that the people of Kent, Surrey and Essex
might elect ones with Scotland’s interests at heart.
We think the facts comprehensively back that belief up. But
we’re not going to ask you to take our word for it.
A very great deal of what you’ve been told about
independence in the last few years by Unionist politicians
and the media is, to be blunt, a tissue of half-truths,
omissions, misrepresentations and flat-out lies. We want
to show you the truth hidden behind those lies, but using
fully-referenced and impartial sources that you can go and
check for yourself.
We’ll be mostly using the UK government’s own figures,
the views of academic experts and Unionist politicians and
officials, NOT those who support independence.
On September the 18th you’re going to have to make the
most important decision any Scot in history has ever made,
and it seems only fair that you should be able to do it based
on the real and full facts. Scotland’s media has only told
you one half of the story. Don’t you at least want to hear
both sides before you decide?Wings over Scotland openly acknowledge the purpose and provenance of the funding for the Wee Blue Book, and the purpose of it is clearly stated.
As the above shows, it's not just about the BBC, but about the overarching media dialogue which doesn't serve the wider public but the special interests that own and control them.
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I might still vote Yes
media - well it's no suprise - the BBC - is it?
Campbell - mmmm, Tweet you say?
Wee Blue Book - almost without fail there is a reasonable, fact based opposing argument to each point (paid for by the Weirs, as is Wings over Scotland website, Business for Scotland website and many other sites and blogs)