The fact that 97% of eligible voters have registered for the independence referendum is really positive. To have so many people living in Scotland getting involved is i think very healthy. What's not been healthy has been the outrageous bias of all forms of media (eg radio, print, electronic, tv) in their reporting of stories concerning issues to do with independence. There is not even any pretence re presenting a balanced view. For the most part it's all scaremongering using often incredibly biased views from people that quite often have a vested interest in the 'no' vote.
In the media (on both sides of the border) they are selectively trotting out high profile people to spruik the 'no' message. But don’t report the views of supporters of the 'yes' vote. There are for example professors of economics, of petroleum, of history who have provided very interesting views on the reasons why Scotland should vote 'yes' and yet they are all but ignored by the mainstream media in the uk. There have been interesting stories from Czechs and Slovaks about their positive experiences after independence but again they are ignored by the mainstream media.
Papers like The Guardian and the Daily Mail (to name but two) have sunk to new lows in their personal attacks on prominent 'yes' campaigners like Salmond. One article i read recently suggested that a failed love affair with an english student in his youth is the reason why Salmond is so determined to see Scotland a free nation once again!
Another article even managed a swipe at the Germans whilst attacking Scottish nationalists! The article concentrated on the fact that some 1,800 Scottish residents born in Germany will be eligible to vote, including one “Herr Mitler”. They even went so far as to say that the Germans couldn’t break up the union in two world wars but now they were attempting to do so by stealth! The writer also expressed outrage that Germans could vote on the fate of the union whilst the english had no such vote. Of course this ignored the fact that some 440,000 englishmen now residing in Scotland have registered to vote and, surprise surprise, polls show that around 90% intend on voting 'no'. 440,000 out of a total of nearly 4.3 million is a very significant number. In such a tight vote these english voters may well determine the outcome. There are also a little under 14,000 Poles who are registered to vote and polling suggests that around 70% of them have indicated that they will vote 'no'. But whilst they have an issue with the German residents voting they have no such issue with the Poles! Surely it's not because more Germans than not have indicated that they will vote 'yes'.