The BBC under scrutiny (Again)

Abstract

In 2013 the European Scrutiny Committee produced a report, ‘Reforming the European Scrutiny System in the House of Commons’ in which it argued that, ‘given the possibility of some form of EU referendum—either on membership or following treaty change—over the next ten years, the media, particularly (given its role) the BBC, needs to ask itself difficult questions about how it deals with EU issues . It returned to this topic in March this year in a follow-up report, noting that ‘given the possibility of a referendum on the UK’s EU membership before the end of the decade, and potentially a renegotiation of the Treaties, the issue of how the media in general, and the BBC in particular, covers the EU is of paramount importance’ .