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The Media Reform Coalition analysed nearly 500 pieces across eight national newspapers, including The Sun, The Times, Guardian and Daily Mail, and found 60% of their articles were ‘negative’, meaning they were openly hostile or expressed animosity or ridicule.
Out of the 494 articles across the papers during Corbyn’s first seven days at leader, 60% (296 articles) were negative, with only 13% positive stories (65 articles) and 27% taking a “neutral” stance (133 articles), the report says.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/26/jeremy-corbyn-media-coverage_n_8653886.html
Over the weekend the BBC’s former political editor confessed — in an interview in the Sunday Times — that he had written to several BBC colleagues over concerns that the corporation’s political coverage is biased against Jeremy Corbyn. When asked by Lynn Barber whether he was ‘shocked’ by the way the BBC ‘rubbish Jeremy Corbyn’, Robinson replied ‘yes’
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/11/nick-robinson-tackles-anti-corbyn-bias-at-the-bbc/
The BBC may have bowed to political pressure to show bias against Labour and Jeremy Corbyn, a former chair of the BBC Trust has said.
Sir Michael Lyons, who chaired the trust from 2007 to 2011 and is a former Labour councillor, claimed that there had been “some quite extraordinary attacks on the elected leader of the Labour party”.
He told the BBC’s The World at One: “I can understand why people are worried about whether some of the most senior editorial voices in the BBC have lost their impartiality on this.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/12/bbc-bias-labour-sir-michael-lyons
And you're right - Milliband got it pretty bad as well. In some ways worse.
And I never claimed you, or anyone else, had been brainwashed to find Corbyn uninspiring.
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That's a very strong case for the bias you have called out, I'm glad you've made it clearly. I'm also glad you don't subscribe to the 'brainwashing' argument. I've definitely had some Corbyn supporters claim any criticism of him is purely and only a result of the bias, a slippery and unfalsifiable argument.
Nick Robinson is currently defending Corbyn's position on R4, against Lucy Powell's assertions that he is finished- "The members and trade unions are rallying around him.."
Do you think the bias against Milliband lost the election last time? I think it was the fact he came across as very southern, middle class and out of touch.
William.
Do you think the BBC broadcast disproportionately favourable stories about leaders of other parties, in contrast to the negative ones about Corbyn? I haven't noticed them being much kinder to Cameron.
Ed Milliband got an appalling time in the press, but I quite liked him. I don't think I've been brainwashed to find Corbyn uninspiring.