18 May 2011. BBC 2 Daily Politics show profiled the new Green administration in Brighton and Hove. But it distorted and trivialised the party's manifesto by focusing on the campaign to introduce Meat Free Mondays in the council canteen. It also featured an embarrassing interview with with a young Green voter who could not remember any Green manifesto pledges or policies. Although interviews with Caroline Lucas and Amy Kennedy balanced this representation of Greens policies as trivial, the programme's prejudice was apparent.
The show can be viewed on this link.
The Brighton & Hove piece is from 15 min 30 seconds onwards.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011fwqv/The_Daily_Politics_19_05_2011/
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