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Why does Nicola Sturgeon keep using her personal Twitter account to get across important public messages - instead of using the First Minister's official ScotGov account?

Is STV Turning Into The News Wing of the SNP? (January 30, 2022)


For some reason Nicola Sturgeon has been tweeting about the weather from her personal Twitter account instead of using the First Minister's official 'Scottish Government' account.

Even more remarkably STV seems to regard these personal tweets as news!

   

Is STV Turning Into The News Wing of the SNP? (January 26, 2022)

Reads more like political campaigning rather than news reporting - the Scottish Government is free to make different spending decisions than the rest of the UK - that's what devolution is about
Reads more like political campaigning rather than news reporting - the Scottish Government is free to make different spending decisions than the rest of the UK - that's what devolution is about
Reads more like political campaigning rather than news reporting - the Scottish Government is free to make different spending decisions than the rest of the UK - that's what devolution is about
Reads more like political campaigning rather than news reporting - the Scottish Government is free to make different spending decisions than the rest of the UK - that's what

I have to say this STV article reads more like political campaigning on behalf of Scottish Ministers rather than news reporting.

The Scottish Government is, of course, free to make different spending decisions from the rest of the UK - and that's what devolution was intended to achieve.

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