EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Moi and manfriend are at EU march... :)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-bias-pro-remain-pro-brexit-coverage-lack-of-too-much-unite-for-europe-trigger-article-50-a7651191.html?amp

The BBC coverage was minimal, the March was tens of thousands of people at least.

A waiting police car got its bonnet covered with flowers, which was a nice gesture :)

Of what? The class makeup of the marchers?

if you want to get noticed you need to smash shit up.

Minimal as in over 100k people matched but it was written as a few thousand. Tiny mention on TV.

But perhaps because there were no riots or counterprotest it just wasn't interesting.

Is this usual? Eh no bias just BBC as usual?

Headline: Thousands take to streets in anti-Brexit London march
Lede: Tens of thousands of people joined an anti-Brexit march to call for Britain to remain in the European Union.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39392584

Notice how the headline is 53 characters including spaces. Headlines that go out on the wires generally have to be 55 characters or fewer. Adding 'Tens of' to the headline obviously takes it over that limit.

But no, I'm sure it's a conspiracy.

Seems to be one every weekend at the moment, all variations on a theme. News audiences would get quite bored if they were all covered.

As said above, you need something to make it stand out. No need to smash shit up, just sacrifice a few goats.

I am just asking here before I shout conspiracy/bias... as talk of this is already going around online.
People are complaining to the BBC.

But, from what is said here, it seems it's really reporting as normal for the BBC. I'll just go shout conspiracy next time in a nice echo chamber then ;)

Burning a few puppets representing Farage etc...? ;)

you don't need the bbc's form for trite and disingenuous headline writing to suggest they're unreservedly biased. just look at the amount of free airtime they give to the leader of a fascist party who has amongst his myriad failings:

a) a grand total of 0 MP's in the party he leads
b) personally lost nearly every election he's ever stood for

they had marine le pen on the other day for a quiet fireside, fascist normalising chat with andrew marr.

the nature programs are good.

Goose-stepping with the stars is quite good fun too.

The fact that both sides seem to think that the BBC are against them suggests that they're probably doing OK.

As for Farage and UKIP, they got more votes than the Lib Dems and SNP added together in the last election. They may not have got any seats but, for better or worse, they are obviously relevant to a lot of people.

fair enough. i'm sure the BBC's output could be seen as left leaning if you're the sort of frothing right wing throbber that writes angry letters to the daily mail complaining about the lack of live executions on Andy Pandy.

Yeah, first past the post is good on some levels.

and to be fair to UKIPs, they may indeed have won a few seats at the last GE, had the tories not (allegedly) diddled their expenses. Struggled to find anything about that on the BBC for months as well. you still will.

Er, the first link there is the BBC asking Hammond about it. Plus a variety of stories on the website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39291495
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39289195
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-39271625
https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=nws&q=tory%20election%20fraud%20bbc&*&rct=j#q=tory+election+fraud+bbc&safe=off&*

sill me, i foolishly had the 'news' tab ticked on.

all of those stories listed above are dated around last week. this stories been going since the beginning of last year. does the bbc only report on the outcome of investigations? seems odd.

tinfoil hat

the tories are deliberately handing the bbc enough rope to encourage public perception that it is flawed and inefficient. this in turn will encourage the public to revolt against it and the licence fee, then they can start the privatisation of it at a bargain price. See Royal Mail and the NHS.

tinfoil hat

hey ho. pretty sure this is one topic that's been done to death.

I detest UKIP, funny enough they seem to detest themselves too hehehehe, but FPTP is a recipe for smaller parties not getting in. It only makes people feel more disenfranchised.

Now if only there'd other Brexiters the BBC could invite.... (they do exist) ... I mean, why Farage only? It has to be a (sorta) politician?

There seems to be a fair bit from last year too https://twitter.com/daily_politics/status/727813788230000640
That was May 2016

I was listening to Radio Four yesterday. Every hour they mentioned the march, and held a ten minute interview with Nick Clegg during one segment where he laid out the reasons for the march and why people wanted to stay.

On the BBC evening news on TV they held several interviews with marchers, most of whom seemed quite normal.

If you want to get pissed off at anyone, get pissed off at Sky News who didn't mention it once. BBC needs our support to be as impartial as they are.

That seems to be missed by a lot of people, tx.

The TV coverage wasn't so good, but if it's covered on the radio it's covered.

I'm not anti BBC I just thought it was a little strange a huge march got so little coverage on TV. Hah yeah Sky and Murdoch those friends of impartiality ;)

I think it is easy to feel that our own interests don't get covered. However central London appears to have one protest or another every day.

True but it was massive! And brexit really living off this Wednesday.

Are they always 100k people large? (Per the met)

surely the fact that there are so many protests is newsworthy...?

The day before Article 50 is invoked, the Mail has made sure its readers appreciate that its srs bsns:

http://imgur.com/a/DzXUd