Now that the BBC has been instructed to clarify which news items refer only to England and/or Wales, rather than so called 'national' items, the tokenism applied by the BBC to Scotland (and, up to a point, the so-called 'North') is even more apparent than ever. As a result, we are pretty well informed about life down there, whereas people down there have to rely on stereotypes of life in Scotland as supplied by the Sun, Daily Mail or Evening Standard.
An example of this tokenism is (thanks Yngwie) the moving of the soap Waterloo Road to Greenock in response to criticism of the BBC in a report which showed that the BBC sourced only 3% of its programmes in Scotland rather than the 9% which license payers would expect.
As for BBC Scotland, it doesn't take much searching, e.g. Wings Over Scotland or Derek Bateman, to discover the incestuous relationship that exists between them and the Labour Party.