It comes after Reform UK set up its own broadcast studio to pump out slick, TV-style videos online
Thousands of people have complained to Sky News about “excessive” coverage of Nigel Farage ’s Reform UK.
It comes after the party set up its own broadcast studio to pump out slick, TV-style videos online.
Twice last week, Sky News broadcast the live feed from Reform’s studio, prompting campaigners to accuse them of “outsourcing editorial control” to Mr Farage’s far right party.
It comes after Nigel Farage was confronted by grieving dad whose schoolboy son died .
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Cal Roscow, director of campaigns at Best for Britain, said: “To outsource editorial control wholesale like this is unprecedented, misleading for viewers, and probably doesn’t meet Ofcom’s impartiality rules. It should never happen again, and over 5,000 Best for Britain supporters have written to say just that.”
In one case Sky News broadcast a feed of Mr Farage “interviewing” party chairman Zia Yusuf about the Online Safety act.
In the same broadcast, Reform played Sky News’ interview of Tech Secretary Peter Kyle on their feed – meaning Sky was broadcasting its own interview, but through Reform’s live feed.
Now more than 5,000 supporters of campaign group Best for Britain have complained to Sky about the coverage.
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Mr Roscow added: “Reform UK have built a TV studio of their own – which is fine in principle – but resulted in a bizarre situation where Sky News’s own footage of a Minister was being broadcast back to the TV channel – independently of the producers – and overlaid with commentary from a political party’s Chair interviewing that same party’s Leader. “