Open Europe and 'biased propaganda'

Dropping into my inbox this week was an invite to attend an Open Europe event called ‘EU communication policy: biased propaganda?’.

A bit rich!

Despite styling themselves as an ‘independent think tank’, Open Europe consistently produces what can only be described as biased propaganda. By misleading and using selective quoting Open Europe, with a helping hand from the media, very successfully manages to misrepresent EU policies and structures on a regular basis.

Its polls, normally designed to highlight how unpopular the EU is, are so loaded they are essentially worthless, something journalist David Rennie pointed out a couple of years ago when he was working for the Telegraph.

They are of course of course perfectly within their rights to do this (and they certainly do it very effectively) but when they are so far removed from balance and objectivity themselves it is absurd for them to call into question the balance and objectivity of anyone else.