On Monday 2nd of September 2002, News-watch began a year-long investigation into the Today programme’s coverage of European Union issues. Over the next-twelve months every edition of the programme was monitored in its entirety, amounting to 313 individual programmes and a total of 818 hours of broadcast output. This project was the most detailed and comprehensive uninterrupted study of BBC news coverage ever undertaken. For purposes of managing such a large amount of data, six separate reports were compiled at various intervals throughout the year, looking at the Irish Referendum on the Nice Treaty, a Summit on EU Enlargement, the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, the European Constitution, a comparison of the Today programme’s output with coverage in the broadsheet press, and their treatment of Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
Bias Alert
- BBC pushes ‘Fake News’ Brexit fears 13th December 2018
- BBC Brexit negativity hits new low with Peter Lilley ‘reality check’ ambush 23rd November 2018
- BBC Bias: Pantomime villains poisoned the UK-EU relationship 13th November 2018
- Can Podcasts Save Radio 4 Today? 1st November 2018
- BBC climate alarmism: ‘never let the facts get in the way of a good scare story’ 15th October 2018
- John Simpson lambasts BBC licence fee payers for their bias 3rd September 2018
- Still blustering over Sir Cliff: The BBC’s arrogance knows no bounds
- BBC ‘hardline’ bias brackets Brexiteers with extremism 17th July 2018
- Time for a re-think on BBC1 Question Time? 20th June 2018
- Dead Ringers clangs out anti-Brexit bias 27th May 2018
12:04 pm
21 February 2019
