Tory MS raises concerns over 'impartial' media coverage of Senedd election

I never would have thought that presenting the news was generally biased towards Plaid Cymru when the news reflects opinion polls conducted by organisations that are not allied to Plaid, or indeed any other political organisaiton. Individual journalists will indeed be biased, but this does mean they can substantially distort the reality on the ground. What I think is happening is that Wales is beginnnig to question the 'old order' of British centralism focused on Westminster and the Westminster based (and biased) parties that have failed Wales for so long, and the old order does not like this new reality. Perhpas media reporting is just reflecting a new reality in a Cymru that is starting to believe in itself?

Isn’t it ironic that Reform, the party that has the greatest positive coverage by the Daily Mail, which has the greatest newspaper circulation by far in Wales, and massive positive coverage by GB News, should complain about Welsh Media ( i.e. BBC Cymru and BBC Wales and 2 social media outlets -Will Hayward & Nation. Cymru) . That’s beside the vast numbers of Reform bots on X, Facebook, Instagram and Tik-tok. Doesn’t seem very fair to me that Reform, massively funded by oil barons, Elon Musk and probably Russian money is agitating about Plaid Cymru, funded by ordinary people like my £25 a month.

No doubt Evans hasn’t said a word about the right wing totally biased English media who talk Wales down at every possible opportunity

Meanwhile about those Telegraph hatchet jobs.

Tories have benefitted from uncritical mainstream media for decades controlled by their pals like Murdoch, Rothermere and Beaverbrook. It is ironic that now those titles are heavily supporting Reform, the Tories are panicking. Perhaps if they had some actual supporters on the ground the Tories would be able to get their message across. Maybe it would help if they articulated some policies which supported the wishes and aspirations of ordinary Welsh people?

The sun, the times, the telegraph, the daily star, the express, the daily mail...for decades at every general election these newspaper titles have been enthusiastic 'cheerleaders' for the tories....dont recall James Evans being concerned by their lack of 'impartiality'? Seems like James Evans is only concerned about (alleged) 'media bias' when it suits him? Just a whining hypocrite already getting his excuses in early for the tories disastrous result in the forthcoming Senedd election.

Telegraph, mail, express, sun, musks pedo site, meta, US media, all these will bat for the cons as well as farage.

How pathetic. A Tory MS doesn't like what the polls are showing in terms of the advance of Plaid Cymru so decides to shoot the messenger for reporting on it. And when asked for evidence to support this laughable claim, he can't provide it. Rather than rely on the opinion polls, why don't we wait until the election in May and see whether the voters agree with Evans. Or could it be that he's worried about losing his seat because voters don't like what he stands for?

Political Cheerleading ? Very little going on internally at Welsh Conservatives . As if they are holed up waiting in some antechamber to defect to Reform Roll back to the Caerphilly by -election the poor Conservative candidate must have felt abandoned. He had very little suppor.t Complete no show from Andrew Davies . He was noticeably quiet .

Impartial media coverage lol. Do me a favour. I don't hear Welsh Tory MS James Evans say similar about Reform UK and Nigel Farage's unbalanced coverage on TV & radio by the right-wing media. Sounds to me like it's sour grapes. That he knows the Welsh Conservatives are going to be annihilated in May and Plaid Cymru are on course to be the next Welsh Government.

I'm sure he'll have his say in the Brecon & Radnor and maybe the County Times forgetting of course as many have already said that we have a media, and importantly social media, tilted heavily in favour of views on the right. How many times has Farage been on Question Time versus a representative from Plaid? Sadly James who works hard for the area appears to have had a lapse in memory.

Then maybe you should support the devolution of broadcasting?

Is it just a coincidence that this fellow has an uncanny resemblance to a certain Mr. Schickelgruber?

Doesnt seems at all worried about the London based conservative supporting media that dominate UK politics. They even call them "The Friendlies" and get privileged access to Conservative ministers - as demonstrated by Bravermam taking just those friendly publications to Rwanda with her. If you want a conversation about media impartiality there is plenty of material to talk about but Welsh media covering Plaid is unlikely to feature.

Daily Mail, Telegraph, The Sun, Twitter, Facebook, BBC UK, The Times, The Express. All major news sources that are right wing. Not a problem for James Evans.

Yeah, good idea. They can explain why farage defends Musk making CSAM and abusive material and profits from his platform and happy to defend it.

An opinion piece from Mr Gill would be interesting.

Eccentric, to say the least, to hear a Tory politician pleading for “fair, balanced and impartial” media coverage for his faction when the overwhelming majority of the news and comment media consumed by people in Wales backs the political right. Maybe his unspoken fear is that they're beginning to back Farage's faction rather than his own?

Funny how this clown doesn’t complain about the tories parachuted into the top of the BbC

Awwww Ady Wady is offended. That makes today a good day

Why would they do that? When there are the posts that Reform councillors and members have made on other social media platforms insulting and making derogatory remarks about this publication.

Mr Evans' comments primarily focus on the BBC because a former employee of Plaid Cymru now works for the BBC. A quick look at the BBC Wales political website back to January 4th shows that there has been nothing about the big political story of the New Year with Plaid Cymru having a commanding lead in the most recent Senedd opinion poll. If anything this suggests under reporting.

Looks like we have Andrew RT's tribute act in place, Evans only got elected because he's from a local farming family & all the farmers came out and voted for him and Kirtsy Williams stood down.