Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
Far from it. You've obviously not taken a moment to research nation.cymru.
It was set up by Bangor university looking at the view that Wales barely has its own media. Welsh radio stations were being taken over by UK based companies. BBC Wales' own news and current affairs output had been cut. The aim was to provide an English language, Welsh national news service based in Wales, run by people in Wales. There are Welsh language news services in Wales, but not English. Not even the Western Mail can be classed as a Welsh national news service.
I visit Scotland usually twice a year. I love the fact that Scotland has several of its own national newspapers. Most of the British national papers have Scottish varients, such as the Scottish Sun, Scottish Daily Mail etc. BBC Scotland has much more output than BBC Wales. STV (Scottish ITV) broadcasts more local programming than we get from ITV Wales. We get what London sends us.
I quite like nation.cymru and it's certainly not a mouthpiece for Welsh Labour government - if anything it is often critical of this Welsh government. According to their website they are apolitical, bar rejecting far-right politics.
This is their mission statement: We have never had a national English-language news service. The Western Mail and Daily Post are regional news services, while BBC Wales is a regional arm of a British corporation.
The Welsh media has deteriorated even further in the last few years. What remains of Wales’ regional, commercial English-language press is in sad decline.
The print circulation of our English-language papers continues to dwindle, and websites struggle to produce revenue.
As Welsh newspapers are bought by larger companies, editorial decisions are increasingly being made outside of Wales’ borders, with less and less relevance to Wales.
It is no surprise therefore that surveys have consistently shown that the people of Wales do not know what is going on in their country.
Many people do not understand what powers our parliament in Cardiff has or what can be done with them.
Meanwhile, the tectonic plates of the United Kingdom are shifting. Post-Brexit, Wales faces a turbulent economic and political future. Our nation’s very existence could be at stake.
Wales has to decide where its future lies within this new order, and Nation.Cymru can be a platform for that discussion – free from the commercial pressures that drive other newspapers and websites.
We want to include everyone in that discussion. We want to include YOU.
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