The Scottish Broadcasting Corporation? The First Minister has called for a Commission to review the options for Scotland's broadcasting system. This, of course is a responsibility of the First Minister since the British Broadcasting Corporation gains much of its income from an imposed license fee applied across the whole Union. There have been complaints that there is a failure to provide sufficient local and regional coverage of interest to people. In spite the First Minister's initiative, or rather, because of it, David Cairns, the Scotland Office minister made the incredible remark that,"Denying Scots access to the world's most respected broadcaster by creating a parochial and narrow Scottish Broadcasting Corporation is a backward-looking proposal." This remark is to assume that a Scottish system would somehow censor broadcasts coming from anywhere else or that the Scots are daft enough not to be able to distinguish between quality broadcast content, parochial or not. Cairns remarks are just insulting and misdirected. We have created a link to the First Minister's press release statement concerning the formation of a Commission to review Scotland's needs which is in a downloadable pdf format. We obtained the original content from the1: website. Our email is: scotlandreview@apeurope.org Freedom is so important, why not defend it? 1 The website AllMediaScotland.Com is an independent Scottish company and has no relationship to Real News Online, to Scotland Review or any other member of the Agence Presse Europeenne Group. We include reference to provide complete information and as a public service.