A THAME constituent, Owen Davies, who is a Liberal Democrat, has written to his local paper, questioning the fairness of its coverage of the recent Henley by-election.
Here is what he wrote:
Dear Sir
I refer to the articles in the Thame Gazette of July 4, By-election Special and wonder on what criteria you gave such disproportionate coverage (60%) to 4 of the minority parties, BNP, Independents, Loony and UKIP who polled between them a total of little more than 7% of all the votes cast – compare 5% of the space accorded to Lib Dems who polled just under 30% of the total votes cast.
I note that this is your second article in recent weeks on the BNP who polled under 4%, hardly warranting such prominence by any argument, I would suggest.
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Owen Davies later added up the scc’s (single column centimetres) and worked out approximate percentages as follows:
Independents 30scc’s; approx 15%
Tories 51scc’s in 2 articles; c30%
BNP 30 scc’s; c15%
Loonies 24scc’s; c14%
UKIP 20scc’s; c12%
LibDem 9scc’s; c5%
general 9scc’s
Total 173 scc’s-no reference to greens or Labour or others.
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