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I'm really interested thats how it appeared. A few weeks after the referendum there was a study that found that Brexiteers were given significantly more screen time on the BBC in the weeks preceeding the referendum. I guess its not as simple as minutes on camera.
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I’ll try and dig up my notes from the time.
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Just occurred to me that the Scottish Referendum was another instance of the BBC showing favor to the Government stance.
Haven’t found my journal from the Brexit era, but in my 2019 notes I wondered whether the BBC radios’ ad nauseum coverage of Brexit non-news served to help the ‘Get Brexit Done’ campaign. One coworker flat out told me he voted Tory because he was so sick of hearing about Brexit and just wanted someone to finish it and move on.
Adhiero
Lived overseas during 2015-2016. The coverage on the BBC presenting both sides (of Brexit) ‘impartially’ seemed very clearly biased towards Remain. The BBC needs increasingly resilient checks and balances, as it’s not going to get easier with increased disinformation, deep fakes, (ed: pressures from government), etc.