Saturday, 17 September 2016

Judging over time


On 6 August Today announced a series of Saturday specials on Brexit. 

In the event all we got was a heavily-pro-Remain-loaded special from Manchester (6/8), a much-more-balanced special from Felixstowe (13/8) and a very-heavily-pro-Remain-loaded special from Gibraltar (20/8). 

And that was it. 

Four Saturdays have since followed and there have been no further Brexit specials. 

Given how heavy the tilt had been towards voices who voted against Brexit in those three Today specials, the BBC's 'due impartiality' line about judging programmes over time can only result in the following judgement: Today betrayed a strong anti-Brexit bias there.