BBC is biased toward the left, study finds
The BBC is twice as likely to cover left-wing policy proposals than those that are right-wing, a study has found.
s bias, but now researchers claim to have found statistical evidence that challenges the broadcaster’s claim to fairness.
The BBC are more likely to cover left-wing think tank reports and to hail them as “independent” while giving right-wing research a “health warning” by pointing out its ideological position, the Centre for Policy Studies have found.
Oliver Latham, who compiled the Bias at the Beeb report, said: “Our results suggest the BBC exhibits a left-of-centre bias in both the amount of coverage it gives to different opinions and the way in which these voices are represented.”
The team compared the coverage given to think tanks on the BBC website with that given by the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.
The BBC covered seven out of ten of the stories on the Guardian, but only mentioned three out of ten reports which had been covered by this newspaper over the set period.
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