Is Brexit Press Coverage Skewed?

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An independent study released today found 45% of the articles surveyed baked leaving the EU with only 27% in favour of staying. Most pro-leave articles appeared in The Daily Mail, closely followed by The Daily Express, The Daily Star, The Sun and The Daily Telegraph.

The Times was relatively balanced, while the most pro-remain articles were published by, in order, The Daily Mirror, The Guardian and The Financial Times.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/study-shows-majority-press-coverage-eu-referendum-campaign-was-heavily-skewed-favour-brexit

Problem is Infacts (journalists making the fact-based case to remain) claims each has published a string of stories on migration, terrorism, crime & control of our borders that contain factual mistakes &/or distortions & reported 8 of the worst examples of inaccurate or misleading stories to the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

infacts.org/hateful_eight/

'The idea that the government we have would provide perfect 'sovereignty' to the people if only we weren't in Europe is touching, but misguided. We don't live in a direct democracy. We live in a monarchy - one elderly woman has technical soverignty, and the nearer you are to her or to people as rich as she is, the more 'sovereignty' you get.
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Of course it won't solve all our problems, but at least it is a start. That is why we have people like Steve Hilton writing books called "More Human" trying to think of better ways to restructure our democracy in order to deliver what the people want and to create a fairer society where the people have their say instead of the elite. I don't agree with lots that Hilton says, but that is the process of democracy where we slowly reach a better society through discussion and listening to each other's views. I think the next step is proportional representation and then a system similar to Swiss democracy where the people get their say instead of having to "suck up" what the cronies decide for us. But it is a slow process and we may never get there, but at least having sovereignty is a start.

'It certainly shouldn't be the case that we have to rely on Europe to give us rights that our own elites would deny us, but it's sadly a fact. '

Then let's change it. trump is "turnimh America upside down", he is going to change it. Hilton is thinking outside the box, he wants to change it. Let's have hope that we don't have to accept a future of unaccounatble, unelected bureaucrats working for big business and becoming increasingly remote from the people.

They are not fascist
just to pick up on the point about the Austrian Freedom party, they are fascists in all but name. Take a look at Hofer wearing the blue cornflower on his lapel, just as it was worn by Austrian Nazis in the 1930s as a secret symbol after their party was banned.
This is a high ranking political candidate deliberately and openly associating himself with Austria's Nazi past. You can say what you like about his democratic right to stand on a nationalist platform , but don't kid yourself. The man is a fascist and the party he represents is all about hate.

Come off it, claig, you can't be seriously suggesting that Trump is going to lead the revolution against Big Business!

The man is the incarnation of Big Business.

I can hardly think of anyone less likely to be on the side of the masses.

And Hilton's main contribution so far has been to get Cameron (arch representative of the elite) and his elitist, old-Etonian chumocracy, elected to rule over us.

Hilton is no more on the side of the ordinary people than Trump is. Stop being a useful idiot.

There's a Webchat with Hilton on MN tomorrow

Anything in the EU pipeline that may prove fodder to the Brexit campaign has been put on hold by EU commissioners and Merkel.

www.spiegel.de/international/europe/why-eu-leaders-are-not-speaking-out-about-brexit-a-1094261.html