{"id":436,"date":"2007-08-12T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=436"},"modified":"2007-08-12T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T10:01:00","slug":"scottish-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/scottish-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sdstrowes\/442604356\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/203\/442604356_1bcbd1f39d_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sdstrowes\/442604356\/\">BBC Scotland<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/sdstrowes\/\">Stephen Strowes<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Iain Macwhirter has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayherald.com\/oped\/opinion\/display.var.1612307.0.0.php\">really interesting article<\/a> in the Sunday Herald about how the BBC made a Scottish news bulletin pilot three years ago (but kept it quiet because it was too good), and why a Scottish news programme is needed.<\/p>\n<p>As he writes, &#8220;[&#8230;] MSPs and ministers were finding their constituents complaining about the state of their local hospitals&#8217; finances even though they were doing fine. This was because they were watching the stories about bankrupt English health trusts on the Six O&#8217;Clock news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The same newspaper also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayherald.com\/news\/heraldnews\/display.var.1612362.0.0.php\">good article<\/a> about how Alex Salmond will open up the independence conversation to include other options for more powers for Scotland in order to get support from other parties.  He&#8217;s really showing himself to be a very clever politician, furthering his cause by changing his immediate objectives in such a way that his opponents can&#8217;t afford to disagree.  He&#8217;s achieved so much in just a few months &ndash; I&#8217;m deeply impressed.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Scotland Originally uploaded by Stephen Strowes Iain Macwhirter has a really interesting article in the Sunday Herald about how the BBC made a Scottish news bulletin pilot three years ago (but kept it quiet because it was too good), and why a Scottish news programme is needed. As he writes, &#8220;[&#8230;] MSPs and ministers were finding their constituents complaining about the state of their local hospitals&#8217; finances even though they were doing fine. This was because they were watching the stories about bankrupt English health trusts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,159,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-en","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}