{"id":325,"date":"2007-03-02T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2007-03-02T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T07:30:00","slug":"is-there-a-media-campaign-against-ukip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/03\/is-there-a-media-campaign-against-ukip\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a media campaign against UKIP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

L<\/span>et me make a confession. I have no sympathy for the political goals of the UK Independence Party (UKIP<\/a>), a right-of-centre British minority party, with a profoundly anti-European bent. When this week a UKIP supporter mentioned that there was a media campaign against his party – well, the words ‘paranoid’ and ‘delusional’ came popping into my head.<\/p>\n

But I had a quick trawl back through three months of stories with UKIP headlines and here are the none-too-scientific results of the total word count:
<\/span><\/p>\n

newspaper %<\/span>
Telegraph 31.4 <\/span>(15.4% news \/ 16.0% opinion)
S Telegraph 20.1 <\/span> (16.2% news \/ 3.9% opinion)<\/p>\n

Times 12.4<\/span> (9% news \/ 3.4% opinion)
S Times 6.8 <\/span><\/p>\n

Daily Mail 9.0<\/span><\/p>\n

Independent 8.6<\/span><\/p>\n

Guardian 5.5<\/span><\/p>\n

Express 4.1<\/span> (4.1% opinion)
S Express <\/span>0.6<\/span><\/p>\n

Mirror 0.8<\/span><\/p>\n

Sun 0.7<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UKIP fascination is definitely highest at the Telegraph group with 51.5% of all coverage, but over half the Daily’s coverage is op-ed. However, conspiracy theorists take note, not all the opinion is negatively slanted towards UKIP – with substantial contributions by Simon Heffer<\/span><\/a> in favour of the UKIP’s key positions.<\/p>\n

But if there is a conspiracy, it’s a silent one. The Kippers only merited 21,601 words in three months…do I sound sorry? I am<\/span> sorry. Really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me make a confession. I have no sympathy for the political goals of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-of-centre British minority party, with a profoundly anti-European bent. When this week a UKIP supporter mentioned that there was a media campaign against his party – well, the words ‘paranoid’ and ‘delusional’ came popping into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,81],"tags":[182,178,85,143,47],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-media","tag-guardian","tag-s-times","tag-indie","tag-sun","tag-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}