Corbyn media bias explains a lot

I have not posted for a while but there have been tweets ( @will789gb ) However tweets getting out of control for time so return to blog. Scope of tweets now intended to be mostly about media bias. I am obviously pro Corbyn in my views but coming back to this blog it started as a look at the UK newspapers.

Now more about television, radio as well as social media. Most of the relevant clips from telly now appear online as well. Some from 2016 also turn up. Newspaper circulation has declined but #BBC still regards them as setting the agenda. ( Maybe helps to put Conservative views to an outside source, some would say ) .

Thinking about what happened in the referendum, why it concluded with a Leave result, I keep coming back to how Corbyn was reported. See previous posts. The people who have not had benefits from globalisation are not shown arguments from Labour so the UKIP message has more space. Needs more development but meanwhile recent example of Corbyn proposing motion of no confidence.

He wrote a letter to explain his intention, including a pause on Brexit, an election and a referendum with remain as an option. My take, this is news. He is the official leader of the opposition. As much as anything in the UK is normal he would expect first option on forming a government if motion of no confidence is passed.

So how has this been reported? I think there was moe clear attention for Caroline Lucas proposing an all female cabinet. My guess Yvette Cooper rather than Dianne Abbott to keep things in the centre. Guardian quite keen on this.

Jo Swinson quick to reject Corbyn proposal and suggests Ken Clarke or Harriet Harman instead. My guess on listening to radio is that neither had been asked before the announcement. But Harman reported in Sun as if she was in favour. Later Clarke on BBC Radio 4 PM accepts the task if on offer.

Today , Radio4 Today intro claims Corbyn proposal "has been shot down".

Last night papers review somehow IEA had info Harriet Harman proposed as "Deputy" for Clarke. Where did this come from? No dispute from official BBC news person. Has Harman made any staement about this sort of thing one way or another? Can Swinson just suggest facts and hope they turn out to be so?

This morning in Telegraph "Clarke steals the spotlight from Corbyn" , very true based on #BBC balance.

Guardian reports hopes fade for alliance against no-deal. But into the text finds Sadiq Khan in full support of Corbyn. Maybe this should not be news but well worth a mention in a subheading, some would say.

Journal pages as found online , Marina Hyde not convinced about the unity project but there is a photo of Jo Swinson with Sarah Wollaston and Chuka Umunna .

Jeremy Corbyn is touting a vanity project

That is pretty much the full extent of how much detail on his proposal.

There is also opinion from Owen Jones, few pages in on the print version. Click on "more" online then scroll down. This includes the claim-

....it falls to the leader of the opposition, who has twice won a democratic mandate from his party membership and whose party won 40% of the vote just two years ago, to construct an alternative government.

That is what I thought. This is why Corbyn letter and views should be reported. In my honest opinion the media bias has gone so far that the reality of the facts are no longer reported.

Consider this still from Twitter

Seems to be the case that a motion of no confidence would come from Corbyn. Sun , Newsnight and Jo Swinson would try to switch to Ken Clarke or someone reliable.

So more links etc to follow. But meanwhile could go back to the very beginning. Around 2016, assuming Harriet Harman will surface at some point and answer some questions. How was it set up for Labour to be organised during the referendum? When did Corbyn get influence on how media are informed? If he ever did. ( Seems far fetched but the way the Observer turns out one has to wonder where their info comes from , continues tomorrow )

So if this is how Corbyn is reported now on a news item that has some solid interest, is it any wonder he was not well reported during the referendum?

Also, if BBC and Guardian are so close to the main concerns of most of the newspapers, should we look to social media for reliable news. Or outside the UK? Bloomberg for a bit of reality on business, RTE for news from EU. Owen Jones probably on Twitter sometime before arriving in print. But very welcome of course. 5% of the content may be enough to make sense of the rest of it