Scotland must seek to reform its media

Primary Author or Creator:
Martin Roche
Publisher:
Bylines Scotland
Alternative Published Date
2023
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Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation has seen the mainstream media reveal its bias, ignorance and insularity

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Media freedom should be sacrosanct in any mature liberal democracy. Scotland must have a hard-hitting, truth seeking media to hold our political class to account. At present we have a wholly unbalanced regime that makes it incredibly difficult for views to be heard that don’t suit the right-wing press or the new look BBC. What we need is variety across media ownership. Until we get it, Scotland will be reported with deliberate bias cast overwhelmingly to the right. 

We need a fresh start. A tabula rasa.

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English