Referendum Blog: April 12

Referendum Blog: April 12

BIASED PROFESSOR?: World at One started a series yesterday which presenter Martha Kearney said would explain how the EU ‘actually works’. The impression given was that these would be objective guides.  The first item was by Anand Menon, professor of…
Referendum Blog: April 11

Referendum Blog: April 11

MARDELL BIAS?:  Mark Mardell is the former ‘Europe’ editor of the BBC and thus has a special knowledge of EU affairs. News-watch research has established, however, that in the past – like so many at the BBC –  he has…
Referendum Blog: April 10

Referendum Blog: April 10

GREEN BIAS: A previous blog (April 7) highlighted that BBC2’s Newsnight had downplayed serious concerns about the role of the UK and the EU’s green energy regime in threatening the viability of the steel industry. Radio 4’s Today entered the…
Referendum Blog: April 7

Referendum Blog: April 7

Newsnight claim: ‘green’ costs are irrelevant to the future of Tata steel CABBAGE PATCH: Radio 4’s magazine programme More or Less, which seeks to debunk and correct the misuse of numbers and statistics, has been attempting to arrive at the…
Referendum Blog: April 6

Referendum Blog: April 6

PAUL MASON:  For years, Paul Mason was the economics correspondent/editor of Newsnight. He was part of a team lead by the programme’s ex-Guardian editor, Ian Katz, and News-watch has assembled over the years evidence that pro-EU slant has been a…
Referendum Blog: April 5

Referendum Blog: April 5

EX-PAT BIAS  BBC2’s Newsnight examined last night opinion about Brexit among ex-pats in the Costa Del Sol.  Reporter Sekunder Kermani had drawn the short straw of being sent to sunny Malaga…and he made it clear that most Brits there were…
Referendum Blog: April 4

Referendum Blog: April 4

INGLORIOUS ISOLATION: All this week, Radio 4 is carrying after World at One a series called Inglorious Isolation: A European’s History of Britain. In each 15-minute programme, a prominent ‘European’ is giving a view about the impact of the UK…
Referendum Blog: April 3

Referendum Blog: April 3

MARR BIAS? Today’s edition of the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 leaned firmly towards the ‘remain’ side. Three guests – former BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders, business secretary Sajid David and actor Jeremy Irons – all were given the opportunity…