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Originally Posted by Kizzy

Anyone can be swayed by media bias, in fact the older you get the more you know the media are used to sway voters and are more likely to be objective.
What does it matter what they have access to, would the internet be a better tool...facebook maybe?
I for one didn't say ALL older people are wise, it's as equally false as ALL younger voters being well informed.
Again you have no idea how anyone voted so this supposition is pointless.

The Internet, Facebook, a peppa pig pop up story, alphabet spaghetti thrown indiscriminately at the wall... Any of these would have been a better tool for them to use than the mainstream media.

I suppose this can be hard to grasp if you haven't actually been living in Scotland for the last month or so. Every newspaper stand, every day, has had every front page plastered with pro-union rhetoric and propaganda and then more every evening on the BBC. Fear, ridicule and scare stories later side stepping into full page union Jack adorned spreads about the greatness of Britain.

This is not even coming from the perspective of someone who hoped for independence. This is coming from someone who simply believes that the press has a DUTY to report with impartiality. To report the facts and let people genuinely make up their own minds. I would have been just as dismayed had the papers been heavily pro-independence. The lack of balance has been like nothing I have ever seen before. On here we all talk about Endemol and their "selective editing" of housemates... It was that, on a national scale. To suggest that it doesn't have a major effect on voting patterns, and that it isn't likely to effect most the groups who are still most likely to use core television channels and mainstream newspapers as their news source (the over 55s) is just burying your head in the sand.

Younger, more tech-savvy people have a broader range of information resources and are therefore better informed. It is that simple. It doesn't apply to everyone - there are plenty of ignorant young people and plenty of very well informed elderly - but in general it's just a fact.