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Time for me to mount one of my favourite hobby horses again, so brace yourselves!
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Today's Politics Show Scotland confirmed (again) my oft-repeated observations about the biases of its Labour-friendly presenter Glenn Campbell. He interviewed 4 politicians - one from Labour, one from the Conservatives and two from the SNP. Here are the statistics:
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Douglas Alexander (Labour) - 8 minute 3 second interview - 5 interruptions - I.C. of 0.6
Kenny MacAskill (SNP) - 6 minute 56 second interview - 7 interruptions - I.C. of 1.1
Richard Lochhead (SNP) - 5 minute 51 second interview - 6 interruptions - I.C. of 1.1
Bill Aitken (Conservative) - 2 minute 20 second interview - 2 interruptions - I.C. of 1.0
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Since I began recording interruption coefficients back in June last year 69 of Glenn's interviews have come my way. What are his averages (as of today) for each of the political parties:
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Conservatives (12 interviews) - 1.13
SNP (21 interviews) - 0.90
Labour (26 interviews) - 0.43
Lib Dems (6 interviews) - 0.32
Independent (1 interview) - 0
Greens (1 interview) - 0
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The evidence is conclusive. Interviews for the SNP are twice as tough at those for Labour - which confirms objectively how it feels subjectively. The Conservatives, of course, fare even worse, nearing three times as tough.
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Glenn's Top 10 looks like this:
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1. 28/6/09 David Mundell (Conservative) - 2.9
2. 14/6/09 Bill Aitken (Conservative) - 2.0
3. 11/10/09 Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) - 1.8
4. 2/07/09 Angus Robertson (SNP) - 1.6
5. 21/06/09 Richard Cook (Conservative) - 1.5
6. 29/11/09 Annabel Goldie (Conservative) - 1.4
7. 11/10/09 Ruth Davidson (Conservative) - 1.4
8. 4/10/09 John Swinney (SNP) - 1.4
9. 4/10/09 David Mundell (Conservative) - 1.3
10. 11/10/09 Willie Bain (Labour) - 1.3
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How can we get the Conservatives and other parties disadvantaged by BBC bias to tackle the BBC about it?
ReplyDeleteMy e-mailing campaign (direct to the politicians on the receiving end of it) is not proving too successful in getting responses, especially from Conservative MPs. Only two have responded with thanks. Neither pledged to do anything about it though!!! The others haven't even responded - yet!
ReplyDeleteUKIP are much better (but, sadly, their clout at the BBC is far more limited.)
I think a total bombardment strategy is needed - on the principle that one might just strike home -, and maybe a more angry tone to my e-mails, which have perhaps been a bit professorial in tone so far.
Maybe I should also keeping mentioning that I'm a floating voter who lives in a Labour marginal!! I tried that out for the first time on Saturday!