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To think that there was such poor BBC coverage of the Queensferry Crossing opening.

83 replies

Cailleach666 · 04/09/2017 21:37

Hardly mentioned on TV, only on local news.
This is a major structure, costing £1.2 billion pounds. the queen opened it this morning, it is the longest bridge of its construction type in the world.
I can't help feeling that if it had been constructed in the SE of England there would have been a little more media attention.

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Perihelion · 04/09/2017 22:24

Got a wee fright seeing the Red Arrows heading up the Forth today, until I realised what they were and that it was the official opening today.
I like how the bridge appeared on Google maps last week.

RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 04/09/2017 22:24

Well, we always knew the BBC were biased against Scotland. This is just all the more reason to demand a Scottish-only channel run by the Scottish Government. Then we'll have daily programmes about glorious Scottish things and none of that nasty negative stuff about the education system that just makes everyone feel sad.

It was nice that all the children in the ceremony were flying Saltires though. Lots of flags, as we must do these days, but only Scottish ones.

DorisDangleberry · 04/09/2017 22:25

It's just been on the main national news just now. Seems some old lady opened it, cut a ribbon and everything.

And snake in toilet is a far more interesting story.

Mossend · 04/09/2017 22:29

I know what you mean Perihelion, I was sitting at my desk at lunchtime and about wet myself when the Red Arrows went flying past

BikeRunSki · 04/09/2017 22:29

It's on the BBC 10 O'clock news now!

Showandtell · 04/09/2017 22:30

I've seen it and it's a nice bridge but not worth a great big fuss, no.

Roseformeplease · 04/09/2017 22:30

Waves to Nicola.

You are on the telly now photobombing the Queen.

EastMidsMummy · 04/09/2017 22:31

Jesus, this BBC report is going on a bit. Local 6.30 stuff.

BackforGood · 04/09/2017 22:34

It has been on the BBC news - several times.
Indeed, tonight I was wondering how long it can take to officially open a bridge! Grin

AnneEyhtMeyer · 04/09/2017 22:51

Midlands here and I was thinking earlier that I couldn't believe how much coverage a bridge was getting on national news!

It has been on the news for days, with dull footage of people walking across it and today there was loads of stuff with the Queen.

I don't get what is so exciting about a bridge where there are already other bridges. It isn't exactly linking two areas that have never been able to get across to each other before, is it?

SomewhatIdiosyncratic · 04/09/2017 23:08

Thoroughly covered on Newsround. Their lead story Grin

Tapandgo · 04/09/2017 23:10

It's very shocking how little Scottish news is reported on the main national news. Not only is the national news London centric, its English news in the main. I regularly move between both countries and it's staggering. The Queensferry crossing got less coverage than bank holiday queues on the M1 (a regular and predictable event).

TheFallenMadonna · 04/09/2017 23:13

It really didn't.

PacificDogwod · 04/09/2017 23:13

Gotta love Newsround Grin

TheFallenMadonna · 04/09/2017 23:14

Maybe on bank holiday Monday.

Sweetpotatoaddict · 04/09/2017 23:16

Probably something to do with the fact that there is only 10% of the U.K. population living in Scotland.
I'm off to find the article on the snake, the bridge has opened and closed far too many times this week already.

TheFallenMadonna · 04/09/2017 23:19

Fewer people in Scotland than Greater London.

RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 04/09/2017 23:22

Posters who support Scottish independence, which is inextricably linked to feeling the BBC and everyone else is involved in a conspiracy against them, say yet again that a Scottish event didn't get enough national news coverage.

Confirmation bias.

TheFallenMadonna · 04/09/2017 23:22

Not that I think that is relevant to this.

It's an important, and fabulous, structure, which has, I think, been comprehensively reported in the East of England.

nancy75 · 04/09/2017 23:27

I've seen the bridge, the red arrows & the Queen cutting the ribbon several times today / I'm in London. I haven't seen anything about bank holiday traffic on the M1Confused

RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 04/09/2017 23:29

Yes, confirmation bias. A nationalist will always think their nation is being hard done by. A Scottish independence supporter was always going to complain the BBC ignored the bridge opening, there was never any other possible option!

Showandtell · 04/09/2017 23:30

tapandgo are you making this up? I live near Cornwall, so pretty far from Scotland. I've heard a programme on the radio about it and seen it on the news twice. Nothing about traffic. Quite a lot about possible war, which tbh is slightly blighting the bridge coverage Confused

RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 04/09/2017 23:50

tapandgo are you making this up?

Grin

Seriously, I've seen it a lot. A complaint that the BBC ignored such and such Scottish news, when it's clearly there on the website. Nationalism: reality not required.

MissEliza · 04/09/2017 23:59

I've seen a couple of pieces on tv. How much coverage does one bridge deserve? You sound like a grudgey nationalist spoiling for a fight. I'm Scottish btw and really bored of the inferiority complex lots of Scottish people have. 'If this was in England blah blah .....' Yawn.

DaviesMum · 05/09/2017 00:06

Sturgeon touched the queen WTF was she playing at!!

She made to, but didn't. Obama, on the other hand, actually did. Would you criticise him for it.

As a nationalist (seems to be a dirty word to some of you on this thread), I have no qualms with the BBC coverage of the event. As for BBC coverage in general, about anything else, that really is another story. But let's not go there. Grin