UK media study shows how negative reporting shaped EU referendum debate
By John Glenday
A new report into coverage of immigration by the UK media ahead of last June’s EU referendum campaign has shown that leave-leaning titles helped shape public opinion by printing 79 of 99 front page stories on the issue.
Much of last year’s campaigning took place against the backdrop of a European refugee crisis which was duly seized upon by the likes of then UKIP leader Nigel Farage but in an effort to quantify its impact on the vote King’s College London’s centre for the study of media, communication and power (CMCP) looked at 15,000 separate Read full story ›
Source: The Drum




