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Originally Posted by punky
Just because you think its "obvious bias" and media-racism, doesn't make it so.
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The following contains generalisations - apologies but it help get my point across....
What you'll find is it's something that most non-English people see and most English don't.
For so long you have been accostomed to having the major media place your part of the UK first - that's why a lot of Saesneg will refer to England as Britain/UK and vice versa. It's second nature for most of you.
So when those who also share your island speak out about it as I occasionally do and TBR has done more vocally recently, you tend to see it as us complaining about something you'd consider as the norm, therefore you'd call us 'whingers'.
Imagine you are regularly told that during WW2 Wales stood alone against Hitler thereby stopping him reaching our shores. Imagine when you go abroad, the natives tell you how much they love Scotland and "your Scottish accent".
OK it's not the worst thing to happen to someone but when it shows no end in sight, we feel it's only right to speak out.
The sports media IS biased towards England. Granted the Saesneg tend to do better than the rest of us at sport but that does not justify giving them 4 pages of coverage whilst Wales attracts a quarter page article. If you feel this is correct then perhaps you'd agree that us Celts should get a reduction or rebate from our TV licence fee.