@KatharineDC Here's an example of why @BBCNews is gaining a reputation for bias
Bias is a subtle tool
Either lazy journalism means the writer missed Y7-11 have the most cases of any age (>2%) or they were trying to create the impression of a problem that is overhyped
Bias
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Bias is a subtle tool
Either lazy journalism means the writer missed Y7-11 have the most cases of any age (>2%) or they were trying to create the impression of a problem that is overhyped
Bias
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Relatively few is wrong
Look at @ONS data: you see only 6th Form - 24 even come close to 2%
NB: These @ONS demographics seem to carry bias too
Why not count all school children?
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Look at the Half Term Dips in Y12 - 24!
Universities don’t have HT…
Relatively few is wrong
Look at @ONS data: you see only 6th Form - 24 even come close to 2%
NB: These @ONS demographics seem to carry bias too
Why not count all school children?
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Look at the Half Term Dips in Y12 - 24!
Universities don’t have HT…
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Perhaps the author tried to convey something else & failed
No idea how you would analyse this, but maybe more isolations do occur in students relative to adults who test positive
But this is a symptom of the problem 👇
Perhaps the author tried to convey something else & failed
No idea how you would analyse this, but maybe more isolations do occur in students relative to adults who test positive
But this is a symptom of the problem 👇
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Educational settings are responsible for a QUARTER of all #COVID19 cases, likely largely because social distancing is neither possible nor practised.
@BBCNews journalists should be examining whether schools are a reservoir of #COVID in the community...
Educational settings are responsible for a QUARTER of all #COVID19 cases, likely largely because social distancing is neither possible nor practised.
@BBCNews journalists should be examining whether schools are a reservoir of #COVID in the community...
5/ Surely its beneath @bbhuwpym’s department to be complicitsweeping the problem of children driving transmission under the carpet, while other sectors are trashed for a problem that could be planned around?
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@theflva
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@NEUnion
@NASUWT
@EISUnion
@cbicarolyn
@theflva
@nhbfsocial
@_ukactive
@NEUnion
@NASUWT
@EISUnion
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I hope media bias will be addressed in the inevitable public enquiry
Until then I hope @Channel4News & @Independent will at least start to investigate this issue
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I hope media bias will be addressed in the inevitable public enquiry
Until then I hope @Channel4News & @Independent will at least start to investigate this issue
👇
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@bbcnews seems to be part of the problem at the moment giving cover for lies and distortion by @BorisJohnson & @CMO_England:
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Anyone would think there was a licence negotiation coming up…
@bbcnews seems to be part of the problem at the moment giving cover for lies and distortion by @BorisJohnson & @CMO_England:
https://twitter.com/ConcernedofBri1/status/1332086514961035274
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Anyone would think there was a licence negotiation coming up…
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