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Is the UK TV media biased against UKIP?
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Get the feeling lately they are little overzealous concerning UKIP.
Is the UK TV media biased against UKIP? 135 votes
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I wouldn't say that overall but I would say that the Conservative-supporting newspapers are because they, quite rightly, see UKIP as a threat to their beloved Conservative party.
YES.
As the new kids on the block UKIP are rattling the cage.
The two main parties and their supporters in the press don't like it they prefer the status quo with all its dodgy dealings.
UKIP are no danger to the main two but they could expose what has been going on.
The way things are looking they could be the difference to who forms the next government.
The political tree needs pruning of its rotten and dead branches to improve the fruit
maybe UKIP could be the ones to make it happen.
It's the reverse of what happened to Labour in 1980. The extreme Left highjacked it and the moderate SDP broke away.
With the Tories the moderates have consumed the Party while the harder Right have broken away.
The difference is that UKIP has grown steadily over 20 years and has durability and a broader depth with people knowing what it stands for, whereas the SDP was a short-lived affair of wishy-washy liberals and was only dissolved by Kinnock and Blair shifting Labour towards the centre and the Liberal Party merging with it.
UKIP are political outsiders.
They are caught in a pincer movement of unfriendly coverage from the Tory press and the left leaning media such as channel 4 and the BBC.
Labour are only waking up to the challenge represented by UKIP.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-is-serious-threat-to-ed-milibands-chances-of-a-labour-victory-at-the-next-general-election-former-aide-warns-9770790.html
Nope.
No more so than they are with any other party.
But I do get the feeling - strongly would be understating it massively - that many UKIP supporters cannot accept any criticism of their party. For some reason they think it's unfair and they're being picked on.
However, what I would say is that UKIP get waaaaay too much media coverage for a party that's frankly quite irrelevent in the grand scheme of things. I see Nigel Farage on TV almost every day, it's getting really annoying. Sometimes I feel like I see him/hear him talked about more on TV than David Cameron. If UKIP was a really huge party, I'd think "fair enough", but it's not.
I think Nigel knows what's going on. I think he knows if he makes outlandish statements every once in a while and says things to rile people up he'll get more media coverage than he deserves due to being controversial. For a small party like UKIP, the phrase "Any publicity is good publicity" really applies, since they haven't got much to lose, and bad publicity can serve to promote themselves. With the large parties, they do have a lot to lose, they can't risk bad publicity too often.
Also up until the European elections last year, the BBC Question Time programs, and indeed I would say the BBC generally, were always pretty distorted against UKIP for not a good enough reason I thought. Of course now it's accepted that uncontrolled immigration is a concern..........
I certainly defend Miliband when it's personal and not political.
As for Cameron - well in order to pass his Bullingdon club initiation he had to set light to a £50 note while waving it in the face of a homeless rough sleeper. So did Osborne. Sorry - no time for them - they are just not very nice human beings.
They're almost as bad as Scottish Nationalists.
It's astonishing really. Swivel eyed loons.
No.
Although it is hilarious reading such claims here on DS, especially in the Question Time thread.
Perfect example here.
Paedophile Labour election agent jailed
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/20/paedophile-labour-election-agent-jailed-for-third-time/
It only appears to be covered only in a local news newspaper and not national. WHY? We all know what would happen if he was UKIP.........
The BBC isn't "left leaning" - it does a pretty good job of being impartial.
If we did decide to leave the EU, you can be sure that TV news would link every
job loss in Britain to us planning to leave.
Well, I'm not so sure!