UK Media Bias
The cluster discusses unethical practices, bias, and misinformation in British newspapers and tabloids, including headline alterations, fake news on Brexit and EU issues, and political hypocrisy.
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Here's what a famous british tabloid has to say on the topic:https://archive.is/8aqVHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35591338
BBC story: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-50079385
The Conservatives in the UK got caught for this: https://www.complaintsdepartment.co.uk/news/2019-09-conserva...
Reminds me of who reads British newspapers:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M
If there's any policy which people are calling for but which the government doesn't currently support - for example, passing a law that blanket overturns all of these convictions - it tends to get portrayed as an obvious win with no downsides by much of the British press. If there's something which is currently government policy or effectively so, like leaving this to the courts, we hear about only the downsides of that policy. The BBC does this too, but not quite to the same exte
We've been doing this for a while: https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/07/politics/uk-elections-media-b...
UK newspaper ethics are not great.
just check newspapers title pages in UK today.... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70wylzyqw2o
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&pws=0&q=c...Original BBC article: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28237108
Blue passports? /sReally it's the victory of a decades-long press "fake news" campaign. For years papers and politicians alike have misreported EU directives, ECJ decisions, ECHR decisions (not even part of the EU), and UK human rights law decisions. This is the result.The UK media have also given up on providing an accurate picture of the country outside London, and on any kind of industrial or trade news coverage that isn't entirely driven by press releases. And