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Listed below are comments made by sodsto between Wednesday, 11th June 2008 and Wednesday, 11th June 2008.

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Not ticking boxes 2:47pm on 11 Jun 2008 U9461192, sure, the chap over in Lewis could make that justifiable complaint. But perhaps that's what his local news is for.

The UK-level news should be presenting reasonable aggregates of data from the various regions, with comparison and analysis: a UK level aggregate of, say, crime rates is okay without qualification, especially if it's backed up by some more detailed analysis (e.g., "knife crime has fallen by X% in the last 12 months; the largest drop was reported by Scottish police forces, with Y%", etc etc.).

The discussion of the BBC has nothing to do with independence for Scotland. It has everything to do with sensibly aggregating the available data for the news programmes, and offering those aggregates at the correct level of media output (regional, national, etc).

The best thing for the media to do is to represent each easily identifiable chunk of the UK to all others. This means that London gets to see inside the Scottish parliament more regularly. So does Wales. And vice-versa. Scotland should get more information on what's happening within London, etc etc.

The solution for the media services is to make the UK aware of what the UK currently is; the only real gripe I'm aware of across England, Scotland, Wales, and Nothern Ireland, is that the BBC is disproportionately London-centric.

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