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.
BBC Bias Digest
- Craig Byers: “BBC Hit By New Bashir Shame” 20th September 2021
- Jane Kelly: The BBC, where history really is bunk
- James Townsend: Challenging the BBC’s Covid Project Fear narrative 19th July 2021
- Daily Mail jumps on the BBC climate zealots’ bandwagon 5th July 2021
- Bashir wasn’t the first BBC royal interview scandal 29th June 2021
- Hall and Birt deny responsibility for Bashir fiasco 22nd June 2021
- An end to BBC bias? Don’t count on it 27th May 2021
- BBC Ideas: an extravaganza of bias 11th April 2021
- Window-dresser Davie’s bogus BBC revolution 23rd March 2021
- BBC BIAS DIGEST 3 JANUARY, 2021 3rd January 2021
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