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4 hours ago, Left Back said:
He doesn't admit to anything. He claims 'that some colleagues had an assumption that the Yes argument was “wrong”'. The BBC of course claim they're employees were professional.
They're a big difference between admitting something you did yourself and claiming another person did something else. If you claim something it doesn't necessarily make it true or false whereas if you admit something you're pretty much confirming it as true.
The article seems to suggest that there were some people who worked at the BBC that voted No. Which is a very, very long way from suggesting the BBC is biased in favour of No.
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4 hours ago, git-intae-thum said:
Well........apart from the academic papers and easily found examples highlighted across a wide range of mediums.........the fact that the BBC's own head of referendum coverage during the referendum admits to bbc hostility towards independence does tend to suggest an element of bias maybe crept into coverage.
No supporter of a political cause googles examples of bias in favour of them.
I have absolutely no doubt if No had lost the referendum, unionists they would be claiming BBC was biased in favour of them. I think they think they are anyway.
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7 hours ago, git-intae-thum said:
Agreed. The bbc is not biased against any particular political party.
However I don't think the same could be said of reporting on particular issues.
The obvious example in Scotland being the constitutional debate.
50%~ of our population favour a particular constitutional settlement and yet our traditional media outlets (entirely foreign owned) are still almost universally hostile to that settlement.
That hostility can be obvious as during the referendum campaign or more frequently subtle or subliminal.
I recall an academic study completed not long after the referendum concluding that "our" media (including the bbc) were complicit in just that.
That's not to say any bias is always deliberate. More often its probably down to a general institutional Britishness within the industry tbh.
What examples are there of hostility against independence during the referendum campaign?
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Just now, Left Back said:
There’s a logical conclusion to be drawn from that…
Indeed. But it's an uncomfortable one if you want them to be the bogeyman.
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1 hour ago, SandyCromarty said:
So with that tory voters buy the Daily Mail and watch GB news knowing full well that both are major backers of the Labour party?
Hello, is there anybody in there?
Every single political party thinks the BBC is biased against them. Without exception.
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1 minute ago, SandyCromarty said:
These are political individuals far removed from a country's duly elected government such as ours which continually sustains westminster organised attacks passed to their friends and allies in the tory owned TV and print media.
There isn't a single supporter of a political party or cause that thinks the media is biased in favour of their cause.
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On 28/01/2024 at 01:38, Stephen Malkmus said:
Unionists' wet dreams actually involve beating the poor with sticks
SNP not helping by ensuring there's a plentiful supply
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6 hours ago, Jaggy Snake said:
I'm still just backing the faithfuls as its hard to pick an easy path for either traitor to win, if the faithfuls actually use their brains (in Mollie's case for the first time).
Scenario 1 - Andrew voted off first.
Jaz won't let the game end with Harry still in the group and I could see Evie backing Jaz on his Harry theory. Then it's basically a deadlock with Harry & Mollie vs Jaz & Evie. I think, despite being a complete fool, Mollie could just be convinced to switch if they lay all the evidence against Harry out: him telling tales to Paul, Harry getting carried away in his takedown of Paul, the shield/murder fake out, Ross was outraged because not one but two traitors stitched him up. And that's not to mention Andrew maybe leaving breadcrumbs for them as he leaves.
I think Harry would be hard pushed in that situation to get anyone else under any real kind of scrutiny without looking desperate.
Scenario 2 - Harry voted off first.
This is obviously Andrew's best chance but he then has push that there's no more traitors left. But Mollie still does not trust Andrew at all (though she'll just have been made to look a fool over Harry) and the other two would be stupid to overlook a traitor (Ross) pointing a massive warning at another contestant and allowing him to stay. They probably also have a mindset that they should be getting down to a final 3 before stopping.
Even if Andrew managed to get Evie or Jaz voted off after Harry, I still think suspicion would come back at him when they were revealed as faithful.
Scenario 3 - Evie voted off first.
Basically the same as scenario 1 except you get Harry & Mollie vs Jaz & Andrew. That might be a harder sell to get Mollie to switch because she doesn't trust Andrew.
Jaz probably isn't convinced on Andrew either but he'd be stupid to get rid of Andrew next and leave himself against the unit of Mollie & Harry. Even if it did come down to those three, it could still raise doubts in Mollie's mind that Jaz refuses to end the game with Harry in it. If Jaz was a traitor he wouldn't care because he'd win the money anyway, so Mollie would have to basically accept her and Harry had to vote off a faithful in Jaz just to end the game, which is a hard sell so isn't a safe route for Harry or Jaz.
Andrew can't afford to be stupid enough to get rid of Jaz after Evie, as they still wouldn't have found a traitor and Mollie would want rid of Andrew and he'd know Harry will stab him in the back to be left in the final with Mollie.
Other possibilities:
I don't think anyone thinks Mollie is a traitor so hard to see her being voted out. And, unless there's a massive swing during the final day, there's not much suspicion on Jaz just now so it's hard to see him going first. Andrew should want to protect him and, given Jaz is so dead set Harry's a traitor, if they get rid of him it'll make Harry look extremely guilty when he's revealed as a faithful.
Scenario 1 is the Faithfuls best hope, but I think its also the most likely outcome.
1 hour ago, DrewDon said:I am hoping for Jaz, Mollie and Harry as the final three, with Jaz desperately failing to convince Mollie to vote Harry out.
As much as i want jaz to win, the look in Mollie's pus when this happens will be the highlight of the series.
Jaz probably should have tried to get rid of Mollie sooner knowing that in the final her and Harry will essentially be a block vote.
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Just now, Judy Murray said:
That Klopp video is incredible. Noone has died ffs get a grip
Even opposing fans are at it.
Don't think we have seen a reaction to a manager leaving like this since Ferguson. And it's quite embarrassing, especially as Liverpool were sacking managers for seasons like last year pre-Klopp
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3 minutes ago, senorsoupe said:
Fair play to him for his honesty in saying that he's stepping down for his own mental health. Burnout is probably more prevalent in football than we realize and he's trying to avoid getting there. It was similar when he led Dortmund so I wouldn't be surprised to see him back in management in early 2025 after a break
Suspect he will find the Germany managers job waiting for him then.
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Is he leaving to be the Germany manager?
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20 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
I respectfully disagree, indy is essential for Scotland, however the SNP wont deliver it, too many are comfortable in WM (indeed some even calling for a reversal on the HOL) and others are incompetent in administration of Scotland. But that doesnt mean independence is a damaging prospect, it’s just that too many are being taken in by a circus of snake oil salesmen who can make a career out of pushing it further away and blaming someone else.
You misunderstand me. Not really bothered about independence either way. I suspect it will fine whatever happens and we would get on with it if we were independent. Essentially what has happened with Brexit.
But boiling every issue down to how it impacts support for independence whilst there's not prospect of it happening in the near future is damaging.
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23 hours ago, Bairnardo said:
It's almost understandable that wanting independence might lead one to afford an easy ride to the only party that wants it, but the pandemic was the biggest single event/intervention of govt in almost everyone's lives and to sit here now and see the scale of contempt in which ut turns out we (the voting, taxpaying public) are held by these people supercedes any political ideal for me.
It's why the independence debate is so damaging. We now have folk making lame excuses for corruption to excuse the Independence Referendum Party.
When independence is no longer mentioned in Scottish political discourse, it will be a great day.
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31 minutes ago, The Minertaur said:
Not going back through all the pages here but surely the worst thing the Faithful can do early in is vote out Traitors?
If I was a Faithful and had suspicions on something in episode 5 then getting them out and replaced by somebody not known is surely a mistake?
Since the Faithfuls almost always seem to think that if someone is their pal they can't be a traitor, they would be incapable of this sort of logic.
Jaz an honourable exception.
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Ross knows his mum isn't actually dead, doesn't he?
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52 minutes ago, O'Kelly Isley III said:
So, a mirror image of Westminster ?
Whataboutery klaxon
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6 hours ago, Freedom Farter said:
They won't be getting replaced either. The evidence now all suggests that the "you get more right wing with age" maxim is bollocks. The boomer generation's voting habits were a product of unique macro economic changes (you can only sell off the family jewels once, the privatisation has all happened now).
(https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4)
Yes, we are witnessing the slow destruction of the Tory Party.
A recent poll put Tory support amongst 18-24 year olds at 1%. Obviously youger people lean left wing but this is extreme. I suspect Hamas are more popular than the Tories in this group, and that's not an exaggeration.
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Wonder how many deaths of innocent civilians is worth a 'threat to shipping'.
Blackford's pish about the need to bring peace to Gaza when the same folk pounding Yemen are also supplying weapons to the Israelis to pound hospitals is rather depressing.
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On 04/01/2024 at 17:37, Scotty Tunbridge said:
it’s a bit cheesy with the medieval style cloaks etc.
It's as camp as Christmas, which I personally quite enjoy.
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INEOS OUT
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49 minutes ago, Savage Henry said:
Hear, hear.
Myrrh please.
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20 hours ago, Molotov said:
I’m sorry but I’ve never heard of her.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67843609
Gemma Wiseman: Team GB and England deaf women's footballer dies aged 33A minute's silence has never seemed more appropriate.
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was checking my list for 2023 for my team for 2024 and Ben Cull from my list died on 14/9 /2023
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Doing something which fires Ukraine to the top of the news headlines for the first time for months seems like a massive error from Russia and Putin.
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The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2024
in The General Nonsense Forum
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He'll be moving to a 6ft by 20 inch property very soon.