Extent of Labour Shadow Ministerial meetings with media revealed

Never mind from Dec 2011 to June 2012 how about an account of meetings from 1997 onwards, They have probably lost count.

Remember Labour promised free newspapers before the last Scottish elections. Meetings since have probably had agendas along the lines of -

Further bribes we can promise once we get in power,
Confirming Labour press releases will be printed without amendment or checking,
Creation of a job position for a graphics artist who can doctor pictures of the FM better than the present encumbent,
Confirmation that only rabidly pro-union journos will continue to be employed,
AOCB to include a mind storming session of any new Salmond Accused headlines... The more outrageous the better.

I have no idea if this represents a a significant number of documented meetings or not.. I doubt it somehow. why are Labour releasing this now? Are they about to launch yet another vacuous and spurious attack on the SNP? ..

I would have thought that all political parties would have regular meetings with the press.
Surely journos would seek to develop their relationship with politicians in order to do their job?

Well I guess all this is just confirming what we already know, that labour are the MOST untrustworthy unionist group of all.

They, of course have ,most to lose if Scotland becomes Independent, as such every sneaky move they make is to thwart the wishes of a fair and unbiased referendum.

However, the Scottish people are not stupid and know what such antics are meant to do.

But if misinformation and bias is poured out all the time it well may have some effect on part of the population who do not look under the surface and of course these dark forces know this, they have had plenty practice.

Democracy is dead in the UK, yup, as a dodo!, and they have the audacity to tell others how to achieve it!!

Labour was responsible for cheating the Scots at the last referendum, assisted the Tories in burying the McCrone report, gave away the 6,000sq miles of Scottish seas to England, to name but a few things.

The NUJ is complaining about threats to their reporters in terms of their work in Scotland after Independence, which of course is wrong.

However, they overlook their failing standards of equal basis reporting.

So is it surprising that frustrations with their reporting standards in regards to the referendum are beginning to come to the fore?
What they are collectively undertaking is a campaign to crush the right of fair editorial the Scottish people should have as a given.

This is very undemocratic and is against the UN Charter, which the UK is signed up to.

Throw in the constant bias of the radio and TV media ie BBC, and what you have is a conspiracy of large proportion by the Unionist parties against the wishes of the Scottish people.

As Independence supporters we have to somehow get this message out to the population to alert them to what is going on.
Also, to the International community in as many ways as possible, embarrassment and exposure of what they are doing is one way to help stop it.

So we all have our part to do, but of course we are going to find this difficult as they control nearly all the regular and most popular media avenues.

It is a huge conspiracy and labour in particular are deeply mired in it.

They are the most despicable of all, we supporters of the rights of Scots need to understand this, and proclaim it at every possible opportunity.

The Tories and lib dems are dead in Scotland for all the reasons that we all know. It is the treachery of labour MP's that needs to be exposed, unfortunately very many are Scots, and I feel ashamed to say that.

However, they know who they are , we know who they are, they need to hand their heads in shame.

Why does a party not in power need to meet so regularly with the media, the BBC inparticular? The attacks/weeks long smears by the MSM and BBC towards Alex Salmond before the last cooncil elections was probably the worst example i`ve seen yet of a deliberate campaign to affect the outcome of voters votes.

It was so dam obvious why this was done and I do believe it had an effect on the way folk voted that time. It went on for weeks and stopped as soon as the votes were in. There was no balance in that none of the other parties seemed to be on the recieving end of the hatred being spewed.

Although the other parties were emersed even more so the piranhas were attempting to strip the flesh from Scotlands First Minister. Even so called sympathiser journalists couldn`t see through the blood filled waters and went in for the kill.

If these meetings make the MSM i`d be grateful if someone could point me in the direction of any articles because I will not be buying any unionist rags to find out for myself.

During the Lords debate on "Scottish seperation", Lord Des Browne of Ladyton boasted of having had meetings with Scottish journalists and broadcasters " who shall remain nameless". Why the meetings, and why the secrecy? Rhetorical question.