Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

With regard to balance of coverage, sometimes it comes down to the number of a times a political grouping or politician appears. Some analysis has been conducted in recent years regarding positive and negative stories in different news outlets. A fairly high percentage, 70% or more, of the coverage of certain political parties may be favourable. I refer to positive stories about the political organisation covered. The other 30% or so of coverage may be deemed negative. The flip side of this is that 70% of coverage of other political organisations would be on what would be perceived as negative stories and that such stories would be focused on while very little coverage is given to positive stories. Who monitors that? Is that also just internal?