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Byline Times (a citizen-funded newspaper) reports that the Lib Dems have launched a Balance the BBC campaign, due to providing months of ‘wall-to-wall’ coverage of Nigel Farage and Reform UK, fanning the flames of dangerous populism.
Compassionate solutions to the ‘boats crisis’ already exist, if only politicians would listen to the experts.
Yet the BBC especially seems to be more interested in what President Trump is saying on social media, than reporting on genuine solutions and interviewing politicians of all colours on a fair basis.
They have to do this by law during General Elections. But outside these times, they can choose themselves.
As our national broadcaster, the BBC should offer balanced news coverage. Lib Dems report that despite only having 5 of 250 MPs in opposition, Nigel Farage accounts for 60% of the BBC website’s mention of opposition leaders (over Kemi Badenoch, Ed Davey and the Greens).
Ofcom has been under increasing pressure to investigate GB News, when a presenter let an interview with President Trump’s claim that climate change was not human-induced, go unchallenged.
His press secretary (who blamed ‘the radical left’ for the shooting of a seemingly innocent young white Christian mother in January 2025 by immigrant officers), regularly promotes the channel.
Are the claims accurate of media bias?
Enhancing Impartiality conducted a detailed study. It’s really important, because this ends up with who governs us and makes our laws. And if the media is not being neutral, there is a serious issue, it could be then kind of called propaganda, rather than news.
Different independent newspapers and channels are legally free to air their views, but for license-payers, the BBC must remain neutral.
It tracked reference to both parties and their leaders on both BBC and News at Ten nightly bulletins for six months in 2025. It found that Reform UK had 19.8% of the media features, compared to just 6.2% for Lib Dems (Reform has five MPs, Lib Dems have 72).
This is serious, because it means the message on climate science is not just not getting out, but is being denied by Reform UK MPs, and not challenged by those they are being interviewed by.
There is nearly 100 percent agreement among scientists. Human-caused climate change is happening so rapidly, that species don’t have time to adapt.
With their semi-permeable skin, unprotected eggs and reliance on external temperatures to regulate their own, frogs are among the first species to die off, when ecosystems tip out of balance, and they’re dying off in droves. Rainforest Alliance
It absolutely beggars belief that we can have the final debate between two candidates for Prime Minister, and not have a single question in climate in a full hour and a half. Byline Times
Byline Times (a citizen-funded newspaper) reports that the Lib Dems have launched a Balance the BBC campaign, due to providing months of ‘wall-to-wall’ coverage of Nigel Farage and Reform UK, fanning the flames of dangerous populism.
A recent article is how Reform UK plan to scrap nature protection rules which could send our beavers, bats, hedgehogs, birds and butterflies extinct.
Other citizen-funded newspapers
The Conversation is an source of independent news online, which works with academic experts, to help rebuild trust in journalism, after years of bias due to ads, donations and being owned by media barons. All content is free to share or republish under a Creative Commons license, as long as you follow simple republishing guidelines.
The London Economic is a digital newspaper that supports progressive viewpoints and compassionate politics, run mostly by volunteer journalists. Everything is free to read with no paywall.
As an example, one journalist who visited Brixton after a mainstream report that it was full of ‘dangerous dogs’, found a dog that barked once, because he brushed the baguette that was protruding from its guardian’s tote bag!
The Canary offers independent news stories that matter to ordinary people, rather than ‘telling people what to believe and how to vote’. It focuses on peace, funding public services and a compassionate welfare system. A recent article was on how European countries are banning fur farms.
The Real News Network is a worldwide news channel, which focuses on the climate crisis. You can watch all programs on YouTube, and unlike say the BBC, if an episode is on Mexican, it will be a Mexican journalist reporting.
This recent program reports on the plan to destroy 550 tons of emergency high-energy biscuits that are languishing in warehouses rather than feeding starving children, due to the now-defunct USAID program.
Truthout reports on Trump’s plans to open up millions of acres of land for Arctic drilling, which would lead to irreversible harm for local caribou, migratory birds and fish.
And Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill’ resulting in sky-high energy price increases, mostly for his loyal (and mostly on low income) voters.
The Media Revolution asks us to ignore media that has been hijacked by billionaire owners, political operators and advertisers, who push narrow and toxic agendas to erode democracy. It runs its own news clubs (like book clubs, but for news) that you can join and get involved with.
We will not stay silent. We will call it what it is. Genocide, ecocide and menticide (controlling people’s minds): Whether it’s disabled people ‘undeserving of support’, refugees labelled ‘invaders’, climate activists called ‘eco-terrorists’ or entire communities demonised based on race, religion or lifestyle.
It runs a Stop Selling Lies campaign on climate change:
Climate scientist John Cook when asked how much of global warming is caused by humans replies ‘Nearly all of it’. Yet still big newspapers and political parties continue to deny the urgency, or say that it’s not mostly manmade. They are not climate scientists, he is.
