TV Bosses Treat Alba Almost Like The IRA
(Rob Brown, 30th Apr 2021)
At the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Britain’s supposedly independent and impartial broadcasting stations all meekly submitted to Margaret Thatcher’s diktat that they starve all Irish republicans of the “oxygen of publicity”. For a long period they even complied with the ridiculous state order to dub soundbites from Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness with the voices of actors. They haven’t gone that far with Alex Salmond or Kenny Macaskill – to the disappointment of the actors’ union equity, no doubt – but they have done everything else they can to ensure Scotland’s new breakaway party Alba is kept on the extreme margins of their Holyrood election coverage.
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