BBC spin cycle caught in action

– since early on Saturday afternoon until at least lunchtime on Sunday the lead story under Wales on BBC News Online’s home page has been Luxury homes ‘killing’ community.

The story itself is mostly about comparing relative deprivation between different areas, and does not justify such a hyped up headline – no where in the story, for instance, does the word ‘killing’ appear, even though it’s used in the headline as if it’s a quote.

Whilst googling some background on this story I found a similar BBC story, dated Friday, headlined Poorest areas revealed by study – which is the sort of headline that I thought would be suitable for the alleged Luxury homes ‘killing’ community story. Imagine then my surprise when I clicked on the link from Google and found that they were actually one and the same story – albeit with a large dollop of Beeboid spinning in between to spin Friday’s original story about relative deprivation into Saturday’s spun story about ‘luxury’ homes killing a community!

You can compare Friday’s unspun version of the story, Poorest areas revealed by study, with Saturday’s Beeboid leftie spun version, Luxury homes ‘killing’ community, until Google’s cache is next updated.

Update: Now that Google’s cache contains a post-spin version of the story, here are before and after screen-shots showing how a leftie Beeboid gave this story a nasty spin (click pictures to see full-size):


Before: the original story
 
After: BBC spin applied

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51 Responses to BBC spin cycle caught in action

  1. Rob Read says:

    ” I have just read that we have a Left wing Bias in the BUBLIC SCHOOLS.”

    No, we have an anti-individualist i.e. STATIST bias at public schools.

    The Paxman book “Who Rules Us” drips with Public School statism.

    Of course those “betters” at Public School should run the lives of us lessers. A sort of GATTACA without the genetic justification!

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