In the three days beginning January 30th, the Today programme mounted a series of items by reporter Sarah Nelson on the theme of whether the UK should withdraw from the EU, culminating on February 1, with a substantial portion of the programme being devoted to the topic. News-watch monitored the programmes for a full week, and produced a content-analysis of …
Coverage of the European Union on the Today Programme, 22 May – 21 July 2000
News-watch – formerly known as Minotaur Media Tracking – sought to establish whether the BBC’s requirements of broad impartiality and fairness were met on Radio 4’s Today programme between 22 May – 21 July 2000. The nine-week survey interval was chosen at random, and the main EU-related story during this period was the growing evidence – denied repeatedly by the …
Reporting of the 1999 Elections to the European Parliament on UK Terrestrial Television Services and BBC Radio 4
The purpose of the survey was to examine the precise content and range of the information presented to prospective voters in the European Elections by the main news bulletins and programmes on terrestrial television and on BBC Radio 4 in the five weeks up to the poll results on June 13, 1999. The survey monitored and recorded the main news …