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| Chris Morris, or Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan? |
(Christian Fraser, Beyond 100 Days, BBC News Channel, 7.37 pm tonight)
Organisers say more than one million people joined the demonstration, which called on the Government to hold a second referendum.
So, according to 'the impartial fact checkers' Full Fact (who, to to put it mildly, weren't helpful to the Leave campaign during the EU referendum), "there almost certainly weren’t a million people on the People’s Vote march".
They put the number at "between 312,000 and 400,000".
They put the number at "between 312,000 and 400,000".
I grinned at the Guido Fawkes write-up of this as it goes on to say:
Not that it stopped the BBC’s risible “Reality Check Correspondent” Chris Morris from endorsing their claim of a million.
Being Is the BBC biased? I needed quotes from Chris Morris to back that up.
And, yes, checking TV Eyes, there he was blabbing away - even today (at 3.17 pm and 5.51 pm on the BBC News Channel) - parroting that "they estimate there were a million people on the streets calling for another referendum" and "we had an estimated 1 million people outside this building on Saturday".
Guilty as charged then.
Yes, here's the BBC's chief reality-checker who doesn't always check the reality of things - especially when it seems to suit him not too.
I think they call that 'bias', don't they Chris?
And, yes, checking TV Eyes, there he was blabbing away - even today (at 3.17 pm and 5.51 pm on the BBC News Channel) - parroting that "they estimate there were a million people on the streets calling for another referendum" and "we had an estimated 1 million people outside this building on Saturday".
Guilty as charged then.
Yes, here's the BBC's chief reality-checker who doesn't always check the reality of things - especially when it seems to suit him not too.
I think they call that 'bias', don't they Chris?
