You hear a lot of people claiming that Nigel Farage gets an undue amount of coverage given the number of MPs in his Reform UK party. I wondered if that was true, so I ran a query against GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language and Tone). GDELT monitors mentions of specific people across broadcast, print, and web news. And…. it is! You often hear this criticism levelled specifically at the BBC, so I did a cut just for that. And it’s true there too. Technical Appendix I used BigQuery and...
