The publication of BBC Wales’s annual St David’s poll is a keenly awaited event. For the politically active, it provides what is now the only regular opportunity to measure public opinion about politics in Wales, and especially devolution. Beyond that, the datasets are useful to academic researchers. In time, they will also provide a good [...]
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Did the BBC Wales poll overrepresent Welsh speakers?
Posted in Devolution, Media, Welsh language on 9 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
#5: BBC Wales has a “systematic tendency to side with Labour”
Posted in Debunked, Labour, Media on 10 February 2009 | 10 Comments »
The claim A very short one tonight, for what is quite a big topic: the vexed question of media bias. The quote above comes from the Welsh language blog Blogmenai (original article here, translation here by the new Welsh Noted (geddit?) blog). The article was prompted by the controversy surrounding comments made about the Welsh [...]