Justice for all?

Yes, I know us old lefties are always banging on about the BBC and questioning its apparent impartiality. But there's often a good reason.

What is more alarming below? The breaches of human rights reported by the BBC news website or the fact that the BBC will ignore these and - selectively - comment on and conduct in-depth investigations into what catches their eye - mostly recently, the abuse of young men at a Roman Catholic boarding school in the Highlands of Scotland. I'm not saying that's not important but there are other important issues the BBC never touches.

There have been many stories about the conditions endured by women in Scotland's prisons. Some of the women are drug addicts, others are mentally ill. This is the story of a female prisoner who has been isolated for 5 years. She has complex mental and behavioural problems and probably shouldn't be in a prison at all. I have no reason to believe she would be any better treated in Scotland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-23778279

The BBC website reports a lot on crime. This is because their journalists get daily press reports from the police. The BBC reporting is usually purely factual and shows no attempt at all to analyse what appears. In this case, Strathclyde police have carried out twice as many stop and search operations as the Met in London (in a much more populated area). There is absolutely no evidence of a link between stop and search and a drop in knife crime. It's also worthwhile remembering that only 2% of stops in the Strathclyde area resulted in any knife crime being detected. And on this basis, the stop and search programme is being rolled out to the whole of Scotland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23780822

The power and influence of the written press are dropping in our time and the reach of the internet media is expanding. Websites like BBC news must take their job more seriously.