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
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- Appeal: Help us stop BBC bias! 4th July 2019
- BBC Push European Elections Remain ‘Victory’ Claim 29th May 2019
- BBC stone-walls Mark Mardell EU history bias 16th April 2019
- 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
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02 June 2020
