I am tired of the constant
pro-Brexit bias and the inaccuracies about leaving the EU that I keep seeing and hearing on the BBC, a broadcaster I used to admire. This is what I have written to them. Please feel free to borrow,
adapt etc if you feel the same.
This is the link for complaints
I have held my tongue since the EU referendum, but I can do so
no longer.
For decades I have defended the BBC and the licence fee, but,
in view of the Corporation’s blatant pro-Brexit bias, I no longer feel I can.
During about 30 minutes on the ‘Today’ programme of March 29
on Radio 4, there were a series of examples of this. First shortly before 0800
Nick Robinson said that Remainers were demanding a ‘Second Referendum’ on the
Brexit terms. This is completely inaccurate. There has not yet been a
referendum on the Brexit terms, so any referendum on them would plainly be the
first. To describe it as a ‘second referendum’ is likely, by accident or
design, to undermine support for it by implying falsely that it is a re-run of
or an attempt to subvert a referendum that has already been held.
Then, around 0815, Brexit supporter Liam Fox was allowed to
claim without challenge that the UK economy had been doing well since the
Brexit vote. This is completely untrue. The government’s own figures show the
UK’s was the only major economy in the world to slow down last year, the fall
in the pound that the Brexit vote caused has made us all poorer, real wages are
still declining etc, etc. Why did your interviewer fail to put these points to
Dr Fox?
Sadly, this is not an isolated instance. While pro-EU
interviewees are usually given a hard time, Brexiters are allowed to spout
their untruths without challenge. When a handful of Brexit campaigners set up a
stunt the BBC covers it. When tens of thousands march against Brexit across the
country, the BBC ignores it.
The EU referendum was
advisory and non-binding on MPs. The BBC constantly ignores this etc. etc.
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