There's plenty of academic studies proving @TomLondon6 correct.
Good article on overall negative press by @ta_mills theconversation.com/media-bias-aga…
A thread:
Good article on overall negative press by @ta_mills theconversation.com/media-bias-aga…
A thread:
Media acting as attack-dog to opposition rather than doing it's duty holding government to account by Dr Bart Cammaerts of LSE
lse.ac.uk/media-and-comm…
PDF: lse.ac.uk/media@lse/rese…
lse.ac.uk/media-and-comm…
PDF: lse.ac.uk/media@lse/rese…
Media Reform Coalition report:
"found twice as much airtime given to critical, rather than supportive voices in relation to Corbyn on the main BBC bulletins. There was also a domination of views opposed to the Labour leadership in all but one of the online outlets sampled"
"found twice as much airtime given to critical, rather than supportive voices in relation to Corbyn on the main BBC bulletins. There was also a domination of views opposed to the Labour leadership in all but one of the online outlets sampled"
The report: mediareform.org.uk/featured/stay-…
Piazza researched BBC using multi-modal analysis and found the BBC to be partial against Corbyn:
lancaster.ac.uk/fass/journals/…
lancaster.ac.uk/fass/journals/…
The book, Bad News for Labour, shows how public opinion has been shaped around the antisemitism 'scandal'
gminenormatheson.home.blog/2019/10/19/bad…
gminenormatheson.home.blog/2019/10/19/bad…
The Birkbeck Professor, @jrschlosberg has shown a catalogue of reporting failures in the reporting of the AS 'crisis' in mainstream media
The book, BBC: The Myth of a Public Service, by @ta_mills is a study into structural bias within the BBC which favours a conservative outlook and is beholden to elite interests. The book is not a reactionary account but a historical study of the BBC amazon.co.uk/BBC-Myth-Publi…
@lborouniversity has conducted a study into coverage of GE2019 and found overwhelmingly negative coverage across the whole media against Labour with the only positive coverage for the Conservatives
lboro.ac.uk/news-events/ge…
lboro.ac.uk/news-events/ge…
This by Prof Des Freedman @lazebnic is better and more succinct than anything I could say!
theguardian.com/media/2019/dec…
theguardian.com/media/2019/dec…
There's a lot, lot more studies done and being done on this issue. But overall, the findings show that there is a media bias. Ignoring this or smugly patronising those of us who've not just seen it but studied it as well is not an academic response.
