Steve Barnett

Steve Barnett is a professor of communications at the University of Westminster and is currently directing an AHRC project on Media Power and Plurality. His next book, on media ownership policy, will

The Telegraph’s Brexit poll is bogus, but broadcasters seem not to have noticed

Pollsters and broadcasters mustn’t allow themselves to become accomplices to propaganda selling a false version of the 'will of the people'.

By Steve Barnett

/ 14 Aug 2019

The Telegraph’s Brexit poll is bogus, but broadcasters seem not to have noticed

The BBC White Paper is a recipe for long-term decline

The government’s proposals would be a blow to both the BBC's freedom from government interference, and its place at the heart of British popular culture.

By Steve Barnett

/ 13 May 2016

Unfair! The BBC is not 'lying'

Steve Barnett rebuts David Elstein's claim that the BBC's arguments for retaining the licence fee contain more smoke than fire.

By Steve Barnett

/ 21 Aug 2014