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Thursday 8 April 2010

CRASH GORDON - MAN OF STEEL!

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In the wake of John Humphrys's magnificent interview with Gordon Brown, how does the BBC News website choose to headline its main story, based on that very interview?:


Tory plans built on myth - Brown
No quotation marks you'll have noticed!
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The blurb beneath does use quotation marks, but also spins us a dynamic Brown, who "tells" the BBC that Conservative economic policies are built on a 'myth' - "tells" not "claims"! - and "hits back at criticism of his tax plans" - "hits back" not "defends"!!

Conservative economic policies are built on a "myth", Gordon Brown tells the BBC as he hits back at criticism of his tax plans.
This would be more a more accurate way of describing what actually happened:

Conservative economic policies are build on a "myth", Gordon Brown claims in a BBC interview as he is forced to defend his tax plans.

The BBC News website is a law unto itself.


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