Is the UK media’s election coverage fair?

Academic study finds that British press is biased towards Conservatives

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Academics have found that the British press overwhelmingly reports negative stories about opposition parties while running more positive coverage about the Conservative government.

After analysing the extent to which different publications ran positive and negative stories about different political parties in the first week of the general election campaign, the researchers at Loughborough University found that the Labour Party was overwhelmingly targeted with negative coverage.

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