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Researcher proves BBC is censoring the Morning Star
Reader Chris Murphy spent a year watching the nightly newspaper review - the Morning Star was not featured once. We must all get behind his campaign to expose and end this political censorship, writes PHIL MILLER
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The treatment of Diane Abbott on BBC Question Time has brought into sharp relief the issue of bias at our supposedly impartial public service broadcaster.
While many of us grumble about this, one Morning Star reader in Solihull has taken a commendable approach to the situation.
Back in January 2018, Chris Murphy began watching the BBC’s nightly newspaper review show, that trails tomorrow’s front pages. Occasional viewers of the show might be puzzled by the absence of the Morning Star in this line-up, given that it is a daily national newspaper. Until now though, it was unclear whether this was a deliberate policy.
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