BBC to trial Scottish Six

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SOL 25 February 2017 11:41pm

The problem is you've watched the documentary having decided its premise is true. The sheer amount of rubbish in it couldn't lead a reasonable person to believe, from a neutral standpoint, that the BBC was doing anything of the sort.

And how have you come to that assumption? What I believe is irrelevant. Whether you like it or not, the documentary was made based on what a large number of people in Scotland believe. It was crowdfunded and has had town hall screenings before being uploaded to YouTube.

The point I was making is that as a vast amount of people in Scotland feel this way, the BBC has to do something to address that. You can't have a national, publicly funded, broadcaster that more than half the country don't trust for news.

Seeing this is a TV presentation forum, it would be silly of me not to mention that the subtitle on the title screen is, for some reason, partially concealed by the title.

A lot of people may believe that the BBC's coverage was biased in some way. If that video had any genuine grievance, it wouldn't need a small group of people to pay for the creation of a documentary watched by less people than your average Bullseye repeat on Challenge.

I'm sorry, is that supposed to make any sense? You've been to the town halls to monitor the number of people viewing? You know the number of people who contributed, and how much they paid?

And why wouldn't it be paid for by the people who have the grievance??? Bizarre comment.

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bilky asko 26 February 2017 12:24am

I know how many people paid money, and how much, because it was crowdfunded. It's freely available information.

The number of YouTube views are also freely available. The number attending town hall screenings will have been a fraction of that. The DVD crowdfunding page has also mysteriously disappeared, so presumably attracted too little interest.

My point regarding the grievance is that anything genuinely "biased" could have been challenged through legal channels, or even presented to the SNP so they could mount a challenge. As it is, they decided to make a documentary based on a book that very few people have seen or read respectively (the book's unpopularity having been alluded to by Alan Knight).

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p_c_u_k 26 February 2017 9:40am

SOL, my point about "you clearly believe all this stuff" was more to address the fact you've been playing the "don't shoot the messenger" game and pretending this isn't your point of view. As much as I think it's terribly misguided I'd have more respect discussing something with someone who all-out said "I believe this" rather than someone who hid behind "many people think this".

Like I said though, I feel this thread has veered way off-topic, so no further contributions from me on this side of things. There's a time and a place for making unfounded bias allegations about broadcasters and it's the Digital Spy Forums. I don't get involved in those discussions because they become increasingly unhinged, and I'm not going to waste my time on it here. Not because anyone has been unreasonable here, but because that's where it would end up.

(February 2016)