Mark Smith: Dear Mike Russell, you've got it wrong on bias in the media

The president of the SNP, Michael Russell, has had a go at the press and the BBC. He says the BBC’s treatment of Scotland is an open sore. He says programmes broadcast from Scotland are heavily weighted against nationalism. And he says journalists in the written press – and I suppose he means people like me – are in danger of becoming propagandists. All in all, these are pretty heavy allegations, and someone should say something in response. So here goes.

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