Campaign analysis: Let’s unpick Labour and Tory rhetoric
Examining the statements, slogans and strategies of what is being said, why it is being said, and the relationship to reality.
Media Integrity
Parlour games and puff: the press are failing us on Brexit
What the UK needs is responsible journalism to hold politicians to account and insist that government actions are fully scrutinised, says Mary MacCallum Sullivan.
BBC invites two right-wing think tanks in a row to spout industry-crushing Brexit policy
Why do the BBC keep treating these ideologues as neutral experts?
Are there really 75,000 Russian spies in the UK?
The right-wing media have misled readers over the extent of Russian spying
Right wing papers are the least trusted in the country (even if still the best selling ones too)
The Sun tops the list of the least trusted newspapers in Britain. And the Mail Online follows suit in the Published Audience Measurement Company latest survey.
‘Vote for bargains’: the Sun just admitted huge errors in pro-Brexit article
Jacob Rees-Mogg had previously cited the article claiming it showed the “huge savings for us all outside the customs union”.
The Telegraph says homelessness is a ‘choice’ and then attack’s Labour’s plan to tackle it
The editorial pages of the Torygraph were given over to a moral lesson on the deserving and the undeserving poor this weekend.
The only way to save journalism is to cut out the advertisers. Here’s how to do it
A few media startups are leading the way and showing how not for profit journalism can be done.
George Osborne made food banks necessary, now his newspaper is asking you to pay for them
Phone up and ask the former chancellor – who is taking part in the charity telethon – why he loves food banks so much. Don’t phone up and donate money.
Given the BBC’s power and influence, its mythology must always be challenged
Despite its reputation as impartial and independent the BBC is neither, Tom Mills argues in his book on the corporation — the BBC has always had the state’s interests at heart.