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# Journalism and Hung Parliaments
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/05/journalism_and_hung_parliaments/
- Published: 2010-05-05T15:18:18.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:49:48.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: bias, Journalism, Politics

Don’t you love blog posts that save their [most interesting observation for the last paragraph](http://www.charliebeckett.org/?p=2821&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)?

\> Of course, if we do get a deeply hung parliament then that will also raise all sorts of interesting procedural issues for journalists – especially the BBC. Generally, governments – especially new ones – are given the dominant position in news coverage and allowed to dictate terms and set agendas because they have the popular mandate. But if we have a minority administration it raises the question of just how to balance stories. 

Based on the polls, we might not have long to answer that question…