! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.
I’ve criticised the BBC News website in the past many times for not having an English Politics page when they have Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish pages and for the way they keep talking about Britain and British when they mean England and English.
Take a look at these two screenshots:
Notice the “Rescued Briton abandons yacht” headline? And the first paragraph from the story? “A British yachtsman is forced to abandon his new yacht after suffering a fall during a solo Atlantic crossing.” Nothing of the sort on the Scotland page though – it’s Scotland, Scotland, Scotland. And the irony of the Also in the News story surely won’t go unnoticed – “US library has change of heart over calling Scots authors English”.
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The rescued sailor is from Chichester, West Sussex which is in England, so shall we call him English?
The BBC have always done this I think. They are very keen never to say English because they have told themselves it is “racist” or “not inclusive”.
But they did change from calling their “Scottish/Welsh” reporters to calling them “Scotland/Wales” reporters on the basis that you didn’t have to be Scottish/Welsh to do the job.
Their logic has some finer points, but when it comes to the English the points are somewhat blunter!
why would there be anything about a non scottish person in a non scottish location on the scottish page?
Maybe this is an example of promoting ‘britishness’?
What does the sailor refer to himself as? English or British?
Maybe, because your illustrious leader is from my side of the Tweed, they have to refer to ‘British’ politics?
You also have Goatboy Darling fingering your purses too!
Axel, I wasn’t suggesting the story should have been on the Scotland page too, I was referring to the fact that he’s referred to as a “Briton”. English is no more British than Scottish is – the story should have referred to him as an Englishman, not a Briton.
Maybe he put ‘British’ on his ethnic monitoring form?
Maybe they dont know, what he is?
Arden..
> But they did change from calling their “Scottish/Welsh” reporters to calling them “Scotland/Wales” reporters on the basis that you didn’t have to be Scottish/Welsh to do the job.
Whoops…What happened there?
As I was saying..
Arden..
“But they did change from calling their “Scottish/Welsh” reporters to calling them “Scotland/Wales” reporters on the basis that you didn’t have to be Scottish/Welsh to do the job.”
But I bet you do (have to be Scottish/Welsh) to work in *their* television.
It would be interesting to know just how many English are working in Scottish TV.
Whenever I listen to the news or weather here in England, the Celtic Cacophony immediately starts up, so maybe the Scots can’t get into their TV because all the jobs in Scottish TV are filled by the English? 🙂
Maybe pigs can fly?