OK so I got bored of reading all the biased tulip in the mainstream press, it seems to be pretty much all what big businesses and the Tories want you to hear i.e. "It's about 50/50 leave/reamain according to some poll".
I looked for EU related stories on the BBC (Impartial, right?) news website, where you could leave comments. This was a simple Google search of:
>> "All posts are reactively" inurl:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum
This returned a grand total of 2(!) results, so BBC is only allowing comments on a couple of news stories ahead of one of the biggest political decisions in decades. Out of interest, there are 591 EU referendum articles in total just searching on the URL alone.
I then took a look at the comments sections (Sorted by popularity, naturally) of these two articles (an extra one is on todays front page, not sure why it's not indexed) :
Iain Duncan Smith: EU favours 'haves over the have-nots' (2080 Comments)
EU referendum: Cameron says UK exit could put peace at risk (4008 Comments)
EU referendum: PM 'makes no apology' for £9m EU leaflets (3973 Comments)
A cursory scan (Pro/Anti Brexit, and number of up votes) revealed:
IDS Story: Pro 799, Pro 572, Pro 462, Pro 435, Pro 433, Pro 415, Pro 397, Pro 369, Pro 361, Pro 359
Peace at Risk Story: 968, 928, 897, 798, 746, 675, 638, 628, 607, 584 (All Pro-Exit)
No Apology Story: 898, 797, 720, 681, 628, 617, 558, 553, 466, 395 (All Pro-Exit)
Now I know this is completely unscientific, and only searched 3 stories on one news site*, but what surprised me was the overwhelming support for a Brexit (Typically the number of downvotes on these highest rated comments was <10% of the upvotes.)
*feel free to do the same experiment elsewhere.
This could either be some very serious mass-trolling/shill voting? by Pro-Exit campaigners using hundreds of fake BBC accounts, on three news stories..
Or it could demonstrate a much stronger Exit sentiment amongst the British public than the mainstream media would have you believe. Also just how impartial the BBC is and not in any way controlled by DC and his corporate cronies. What are the odds the comments sections on them three stories above suddenly 'disappear' from the internet?
Either way I'll raise a glass to the imminent exit of GB from the EU!
I looked for EU related stories on the BBC (Impartial, right?) news website, where you could leave comments. This was a simple Google search of:
>> "All posts are reactively" inurl:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum
This returned a grand total of 2(!) results, so BBC is only allowing comments on a couple of news stories ahead of one of the biggest political decisions in decades. Out of interest, there are 591 EU referendum articles in total just searching on the URL alone.
I then took a look at the comments sections (Sorted by popularity, naturally) of these two articles (an extra one is on todays front page, not sure why it's not indexed) :
Iain Duncan Smith: EU favours 'haves over the have-nots' (2080 Comments)
EU referendum: Cameron says UK exit could put peace at risk (4008 Comments)
EU referendum: PM 'makes no apology' for £9m EU leaflets (3973 Comments)
A cursory scan (Pro/Anti Brexit, and number of up votes) revealed:
IDS Story: Pro 799, Pro 572, Pro 462, Pro 435, Pro 433, Pro 415, Pro 397, Pro 369, Pro 361, Pro 359
Peace at Risk Story: 968, 928, 897, 798, 746, 675, 638, 628, 607, 584 (All Pro-Exit)
No Apology Story: 898, 797, 720, 681, 628, 617, 558, 553, 466, 395 (All Pro-Exit)
Now I know this is completely unscientific, and only searched 3 stories on one news site*, but what surprised me was the overwhelming support for a Brexit (Typically the number of downvotes on these highest rated comments was <10% of the upvotes.)
*feel free to do the same experiment elsewhere.
This could either be some very serious mass-trolling/shill voting? by Pro-Exit campaigners using hundreds of fake BBC accounts, on three news stories..
Or it could demonstrate a much stronger Exit sentiment amongst the British public than the mainstream media would have you believe. Also just how impartial the BBC is and not in any way controlled by DC and his corporate cronies. What are the odds the comments sections on them three stories above suddenly 'disappear' from the internet?
Either way I'll raise a glass to the imminent exit of GB from the EU!
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