I AGREE with actor Peter Mullan regarding the BBC ("Mullan: BBC bias during the referendum broke my heart",
The Herald, June 2). I attended the second protest at BBC's Glasgow HQ fed up with what it my view was brased reporting over the independence debate.
I read on Facebook about the protest and decided on my own initiative that if I was as unhappy as I was about this matter I needed to do something rather than just whinge about it.
Peaceful protest seemed a sensible way to go about things, so at the age of 55 I decided to go on my first protest.
I happened to mention I was going and was surprised by how many friends also decided to join in and agreed to travel to Glasgow. One of our crowd was an SNP member, not one of us had been lobbied by anyone from the SNP to attend and as far as I was aware the SNP had no direct involvement in the organising of the protest. This was a spontaneous groundswell of opinion by ordinary members of the public.
The BBC would do well to reflect on that as it is still not acknowledging the bias so evidently on display during the referendum.
Jim Dear,
82 Marketgate, Arbroath.
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