OCTOBER'S I.C.s - JON SOPEL

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The Politics Show offers its viewers a Sunday lunch quite often piled high with biased reporting (see http://beebbiascraig.blogspot.com/search/label/Jon%20Sopel). Do Jon Sopel's interruption coefficients confirm this:
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18/10 Lord Adonis Labour 2.1
04/10 Nigel Farage UKIP 1.2
11/10 Chris Grayling Conservative 1.2
18/10 Nick Clegg Lib Dem 0.9
04/10 David Miliband Labour 0.8
11/10 Hilary Benn Labour 0.7
25/10 Ken Clarke Conservative 0.6
04/10 Eric Pickles Conservative 0.6
18/10 Mark Hoban Conservative 0.2
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No, they don't. (Well, you can't win 'em all!) Here are his surprising averages for October:
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UKIP - 1.2
Labour - 1.2
Lib Dems - 0.9
Conservatives - 0.65
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Does a survey of all 27 of Jon Sopel's interviews since June tell the same baffling story?
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UKIP (1) - 1.2
Conservatives (8) - 1.08
Labour (11) - 0.85
Lib Dems (4) - 0.55
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That's more like it! Still, Jon Sopel has been away for a very long summer break. Covering a lot more interviews should clarify matters further. The jury is still out.
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