Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Not bashing Sir Alan


In contrast, the BBC's account of Boris's Remain-backing deputy Sir Alan Duncan claim that working class voters threw "a tantrum" during the Brexit vote is given the softest treatment by the BBC News website.

The article essentially just reports his pro-immigration speech without criticism for the first 12 paragraphs and then tags on 2 paragraphs of criticism from the new UKIP leader. 

Compare that to the Telegraphs's account, which gives 3 paragraphs of Sir Alan, followed by 1 paragraph about criticism of Sir Alan, followed by 5 more paragraphs of Sir Alan, followed by 5 paragraphs of criticism of Sir Alan from the new UKIP leader. 

Now which is the more balanced account? The Telegraph's one quite clearly.