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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youtube.com GB BBC ECHR NLA complaintsdepartment.co www.bbc HN ECJ co.uk uk brexit bbc news british press anti government newspaper campaign

Sample Comments

ur-whale Apr 18, 2023 View on HN

Here's what a famous british tabloid has to say on the topic:https://archive.is/8aqVHhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35591338

r721 Oct 17, 2019 View on HN

BBC story: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-50079385

astannard Sep 17, 2019 View on HN

The Conservatives in the UK got caught for this: https://www.complaintsdepartment.co.uk/news/2019-09-conserva...

andi999 Feb 22, 2021 View on HN

Reminds me of who reads British newspapers:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

makomk Jan 11, 2024 View on HN

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

treesrule Jan 12, 2021 View on HN

We've been doing this for a while: https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/07/politics/uk-elections-media-b...

dash2 Jun 6, 2024 View on HN

UK newspaper ethics are not great.

Calwestjobs Mar 21, 2025 View on HN

just check newspapers title pages in UK today.... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70wylzyqw2o

noja Jul 10, 2014 View on HN

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&pws=0&q=c...Original BBC article: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28237108

pjc50 Mar 30, 2018 View on HN

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