The media has polarised the views of England and Scotland

Newspapers and broadcasters have polarised views between Scotland and England in the digital era, which has led ignorance and hostility, according to a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research North.

The author of the report,Douglas Fraser, is also the political editor of the Scottish Herald.

This says the Institute can be illustrated in a number of ways

1.London based papers producing ‘Scottish editions’ subsequently strip Scottish news from English editions

2.The Scottish media has focused more of its attention on what is happening in the Scottish Parliament, and neither it nor the London-based media pay adequate attention to the English regions, Wales or Brussels.

3.A tendency of some London-based papers to treat Scotland as a foreign country and only cover “heroin or haggis” stories limits the understanding of Scotland south of the border

In addition the reporting of issues such as public spending disparities between the two nations has led to a further fueling of resentment