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Referendum Blog: June 27

BBC CONTINUES ‘PROJECT FEAR’: How is the BBC going to report Brexit? The early signs are not good. News-watch, via its sister BBC Complaints website, has been inundated with submissions – many more than during the referendum campaign itself –…

“Jo Cox (a few days later)”

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | by Sue

Guest post from Sue, of Is the BBC Biased? “Many of our young women don’t feel safe on the street.” Who said such a thing? Nigel Farage, projecting a post Remain, Cologne-like future? Nah. It was Jo Cox, in a…

Referendum Blog: June 22

EU Referendum Blog | by David Keighley

COX BIAS: The lead posting on News-watch about Nigel Farage demonstrates that since the murder of Jo Cox, much BBC coverage has emphasised that those who are opposed to the EU because of related immigration pressures are fired by ‘hatred’. …

BBC attacks on Farage continue as campaign nears end

EU Referendum | by David Keighley

Last week in BBC Watch, it was noted that as referendum polling day fast approached, that in 17 years of monitoring the BBC’s coverage of the EU, one factor had scarcely changed: the casting of Nigel Farage and the party…

Referendum Blog: June 20

EU Referendum Blog | by David Keighley

HUMPHRYS PRO-IMMIGRATION BIAS: John Humphrys on Saturday presented a 27-minute Today feature on immigration. It was unusually long and amounted to a documentary inside the Today format. What was the purpose? Humphrys opined that the topic was causing a debate…

Craig Byers: Mishal Husain distorts immigration debate

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | by Craig Byers

I’ve been a little bit surprised at how little has been written (so far) about Mishal Husain’s BBC Two documentary Britain & Europe: The Immigration Question. I’ve seen barely a comment about it anywhere. For me, however, it was one of…

Sir Cliff saga shows BBC is ‘impervious to criticism of its journalism’

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

The BBC’s sensationalist coverage of the South Yorkshire police ‘investigation’ of Sir Cliff Richard over alleged sexual impropriety stank to high heaven from the beginning. Now that the 75-year-old singer has been totally exonerated, it stinks even more. The Richard…

Referendum Blog: June 15

EU Referendum Blog | by David Keighley

EASTON BIAS: At what point does a BBC ‘editor’ such as Laura Kuenssberg (Politics) or Mark Easton (‘Home’) cross the line between offering expert opinion and expressing their own political prejudice? Easton certainly strained that line on his report on…

Referendum Blog: June 14

EU Referendum Blog | by David Keighley

BERLIN BIAS:BC Radio 1 decided to visit Germany in its Newsbeat bulletin yesterday evening. The referendum vote is now fast approaching…and the need for balance, it would be thought, would demand a variety of opinions would be included. Wrong. It…

Referendum Blog: June 12

EU Referendum Blog | by David Keighley

MORE ANTI-FARAGE BIAS: An earlier blog noted that the coverage by BBC1’s News at Ten of remarks made by Chancellor George Osborne in his high-profile interview by Andrew Neil, was sharply skewed to the ‘remain case’, and, indeed, that the…

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