Steve Hunt wrote:Roy Twing wrote:Steve Hunt wrote:Anyway, trying to get the thread back on topic.
Only a very small proportion of speakers on Radio 4’s Today programme are long-term supporters of leaving the EU, the Civitas think-tank said in a report.
The authors claimed the BBC has been unable to supply an example of a single programme since the June 2016 referendum which has examined the opportunities of Brexit.
Analysis finds that just 3.2% of guests talking about the EU on the Today Programme over ten-year period were pro-Brexit
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5428081/b ... st-brexit/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/camp ... -wtplg6rp0
Hillman's response should be moderately interesting.
Indeed, Roy.
Pretty damning, I'd say.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ecade.html
Civitas said pro-Brexit views have been under-represented on flagship BBC news programmes for decades.
In 274 hours of monitored BBC EU coverage between 2002 and 2017, only 14 speakers (0.2 per cent of the total) were Left-wing advocates for leaving the EU. These 14 contributors delivered 1,680 words, adding up to approximately 12 minutes.
In the same period two strongly pro-EU Tories, Ken Clarke and Michael Heseltine, made 28 appearances between them, with contributions totalling 11,208 words – over six times the amount of airtime allocated to all Left-wing Leave supporters.
The authors, David Keighley and Andrew Jubb, wrote: ‘When opinion in favour of leaving the EU has featured, the editorial approach has – at the expense of exploring withdrawal itself – tended heavily towards discrediting and denigrating opposition to the EU as xenophobic.
Ain't that the truth
Pretty much what you & I at least, have been saying for years, and of course, the bbc bias doesn't just begin and end with brexit views, - any view that is not the current politically correct stance is hammered out of the majority of the limelight.