A TALE OF TWO PROPOSALS - PART 2

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The BBC News website has substantial articles on the two proposals.
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The first is 'Cadbury's law' to be in Labour election manifesto
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The article reports Labour's plans in detail and outlines their reasoning, describes Kraft's takeover of Cadbury as "controversial" and reports that the Lib Dems back the proposal. There are no critical voices whatsoever and the article ends like this:
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The campaign for the so-called Cadbury's law has been led by the Unite union, but has gained popularity among those unhappy at the way in which the confectioner was bought out by Kraft.
Some observers felt Kraft should have paid more for Cadbury, and that short-term investors pushed through the deal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8612745.stm
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A Labour press release could not have been less probing!
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What a difference though for the Conservative proposal!!
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This article, Tories to offer tax breaks for married couples, gives us a summary of their plan to give four million married couples and civil partners an annual £150 tax break but by as early as its third paragraph mentions that "Labour said other families would lose out" before moving on to mention Lib Dem criticism:
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The Lib Dems, who called the plan "patronising", have launched their own policies for families. Their pledges include greater flexibility for working parents, more affordable childcare and cheap grants or loans to renovate empty housing.
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Of these Lib Dem proposals, there's no probing whatsoever!
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Five paragraphs follow where George Osborne outlines the Conservative case. Criticism from Vince Cable, Kate Bell of national single parents' charity Gingerbread, Nick Clegg, someone at the IFS and unspecified 'critics' then piles in.
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It's the add-ons to the article where the bias really lies. A 'blockquote' criticism from the IFS is one prominent feature, another are two video clips criticising the Tories from...Nick Clegg and Ed Balls!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8612610.stm
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A free ride for Labour, an onslaught against the Conservatives.
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EXTRA: The Lib Dems' own proposals on the family get an article of their own:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8613087.stm
There is not a whiff of criticism in it. Nick Clegg is quoted and the policies outlined in detail.
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A free ride for the Lib Dems too.