[St Charles Owl]

SCO my "bias" is totally based on newspaper headline pages that span as far back as the year "dot". I don't buy any of these newspapers but, scanning through most of the front page headers when visiting a local newsagent, something I do maybe 4-5 times per week, I'd say I'm fairly qualified in gauging the anti Scot indy/hate SNP/hate Scot govt "agenda" in certain headers, some of them implicit and some of them extremely explicit to the point of justified complaint re huge inaccuracies attached to the shit they print. Short of carrying out a detailed thesis on each header per day for months n months, I'm sure you and other Sb members on this board could hazard a decent guess on who are the worst offenders for this kinda shit and it has been going on for years TBF. As for the bbc, my view, for what it is worth, is that the beeb is infected with certain senior Oxbridge people who, on occasions, orchestrate a pro Brit govt agenda on certain chosen progs - some of their shit is subtle, other stuff is plainly outrageous in political content and bias that includes exclusion of critics from certain political parties. Note I'm referring to political infiltration of said bbc BUT not all bbc employees, presenters etc are of that same political persuasion - that was never what was being inferred. However, there is an issue re this type of unhealthy infiltration within this organisation, of that I have no doubt!! And btw may I add that Scotland holds the European record with a massive reduction in reading print media in the past 5 years - a huge drop in Scot readers going anywhere near certain newspapers any more and this trend is far greater than any other country in Europe.

0762, you appear to have taken my post personally or seem to think I directing this solely at you - I wasn't!! I agree with the existence of bias in all media, my point was what we may see as bias, there are plenty on the other side of a debate or topic that see that as being the facts or at least the truth based on what they believe! I would imagine you have been a Scottish independence supporter for many years, so I would expect you to believe any headline that is against independence as being generally wrong, but equally the guy stood next to you who is not a supporter of independence probably looks at these headlines and comes to the opposite conclusion. I think the days of any media carrying no bias at all are gone, we all have opinions and the media by their very nature get to voice those in a free press society. I think your last line sums it up, a lot of people will simply not buy a newspaper if it doesn't support their views, and that is their prerogative but equally a lot of people do continue to read it because of those views.

I am not sure we can have any expectation of the media having no bias, especially on subjects like Brexit or Scot Indy, they have an audience and they will tailor their message to satisfy that audience.