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Home arrow Holyrood news arrow News categories arrow Culture, Sport & Tourism (HCL02) arrow SNP renews calls for Scottish news at six
SNP renews calls for Scottish news at six Print E-mail
Thursday, 07 June 2007

Scottish National Party MP Pete Wishart has today written to Mark Thomson, Director General of the BBC, to ask him once again to look positively at the idea of a Scottish six o'clock news service. In his letter Wishart points out that Scotland has a "new political culture" that is not properly reflected in the main news bulletins produced in London.

"Scottish viewers are repeatedly being short changed and increasingly misled in the news coverage of Scotland. We need a news service that properly reflects our national news agenda and addresses our news priorities. What we currently get is a misleading output that does nothing other than confuse the Scottish viewer when it comes to the coverage of domestic political news stories.

"The Scottish news viewer still receives irrelevant stories that have nothing to do with the Scotland they live in. For example we now have a Scottish Government and a Westminster Government but the BBC makes no attempt to distinguish between the two when reporting key political stories. In the last few weeks the average Scottish BBC news viewer is also likely to have learned more about grammar schools in England than innovations in the Scottish education system.

"No nation should put up with this, and now there is no good reason why we can’t have our news services produced in Scotland to serve the Scottish people. The days of reporting and observing our nation by proxy should come to an end and I hope that the Director General responds favourably to this suggestion.”
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