BBC1 NEWS ‘MAKE YOUR MIND UP’ FEATURES STRONGLY FAVOUR ‘REMAIN’ SIDE:
The BBC1 News at Ten flagship bulletin is carrying a series of reports which it says are about ‘asking about the factors that are likely to influence the way people…
Mark Mardell wins Vince Cable award for balanced reporting as Germans warn of Brexit ‘nightmare’
Mark Mardell, presenter of Radio 4’s The World This Weekend, has been on his travels again, this time to Berlin. His purpose was to find out whether Germany – in…
Referendum Blog: May 29
NORTHERN IRELAND BIAS: On Friday’s Today programme (May 27), Mishal Husain presented three packages from Northern Ireland about the possible impact of Brexit. In the first she interviewed two Irish…
Refrendum Blog: May 28
THE DOG THAT DIDN’T BARK? A poster published by the pressure group Operation Black Vote (OBV) showing a skinhead thug intimidating a sari-wearing immigrant – and aimed, say OBV, at…
‘REMAIN’ FAVOURITISM IN FIRST FORMAL BBC REFERENDUM SHOW?
How Should I Vote, the BBC’s first formal programme of the referendum campaign aimed at helping voters to make their minds up, was on BBC1 on Thursday night. It was…
Referendum Blog: May 27
CURRYING EU FAVOUR?: Both Newsnight on Wednesday night and Today on Thursday morning presented what might be called pre-emptive pieces in their EU referendum coverage. ‘ Both carried items about…
Referendum Blog: May 26
BREAKFAST BIAS: BBC1’s Breakfast programme examined, with glitzy but highly misleading graphics, the UK’s contribution to the EU budget. The peg for the analysis is a claim by Brexit campaigners…
Referendum Blog: May 24
NEWSNIGHT BREXIT HELL? When it comes to impartiality, which planet does Newsnight – the BBC’s television news and current affairs flagship programme – inhabit? Over the past six weeks the…
Referendum Blog: May 23
FAIR’S FAIR?: With bias, the devil is often in the detail. A sharp-eared listener noticed on his rather congested drive back from London to his home in County Durham that…
Referendum Blog: May 22
BORDER TROUBLES?: On the BBC Weekend News this evening, the main item was hinged on that Vote Leave was wrong to suggest that the UK could not veto Turkey’s application…