Issue β„–01 Β· Live

Bias, on the
record.

Plain-English bias reports on UK broadcast news, judged against the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. Every claim scored, quoted, and time-stamped β€” at the scale of round-the-clock broadcasting, not the pace of a research paper.

The premise

Bias is observable. We make it measurable.

I.

Continuous capture

Sky News, GB News, TalkTV β€” watched around the clock and kept on record. No sampling, no gaps, no missed broadcasts.

II.

Speaker-attributed transcripts

Every quote is traced to who said it β€” presenter or guest β€” so a claim can be attributed precisely, not lost in a wall of text.

III.

Ofcom-grounded scoring

Each segment scored against Section 5 of the Code (due impartiality, due accuracy, undue prominence) with cited rule numbers and inline quotes.

IV.

Public, citable evidence

Every report has a public share URL with structured metadata. Forward to a regulator, embed in a newsletter, file with a complaint.

Method Β· Β§ 02

Reproducible, citable, regulator-ready.

  1. 01 Β· Capture

    Each live channel is recorded continuously, with overlap so nothing falls between segments. Footage is kept long enough to check any quoted claim against the original broadcast.

  2. 02 Β· Transcribe

    Speaker-separated transcripts, every word time-stamped to the second and attributed to who said it β€” presenter, guest, voiceover, or sound bite.

  3. 03 Β· Analyse

    The same checks, applied the same way every time, score each segment against Section 5 of the Code: bias direction, severity, the Ofcom rules engaged, and the exact quotes that triggered each flag. No editorialising β€” just the breaches, listed.

  4. 04 Β· Publish

    Reports are published per segment and rolled up by the hour and by the day. Every report has a public share link with a proper preview, so forwarding one to a colleague β€” or a regulator β€” looks credible, not like a naked URL.

β€œThe point is not to manufacture controversy β€” it is to make controversy-already-on-air retrievable, verifiable, and quotable.”