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Lies, damn lies...
Oct. 14th, 2005 06:23 pmI was terribly amused to see a headline in The Metro this morning reading (something like) "Metro Readers Horrified by ID Cards".
I wasn't amused by the headline itself though, I was amused when I read down the rest of the article to see that, when asked to choose between (paraphrasing):
"I am horrified by the thought of ID Cards", "ID Cards are a good idea, but I'm not 100% convinced our incompetent government will implement them well" and "ID Cards - everyone should have one stapled to them at birth" 34% of people had said they were horrified at the idea, 35% were fine with them and 28% were in favour (leaving the usual few who know nothing)
Now, technically speaking, the headline was accurate - there were metro readers horrified by ID cards. But equally accurate would have been "2/3 of Metro readers are absolutely fine with ID cards."
Still, they got a nice headline out of it.
Oh - The Metro is owned by the same people as The Daily Mail - which is probably the most horridly right wing paper in the UK mainstream.
I wasn't amused by the headline itself though, I was amused when I read down the rest of the article to see that, when asked to choose between (paraphrasing):
"I am horrified by the thought of ID Cards", "ID Cards are a good idea, but I'm not 100% convinced our incompetent government will implement them well" and "ID Cards - everyone should have one stapled to them at birth" 34% of people had said they were horrified at the idea, 35% were fine with them and 28% were in favour (leaving the usual few who know nothing)
Now, technically speaking, the headline was accurate - there were metro readers horrified by ID cards. But equally accurate would have been "2/3 of Metro readers are absolutely fine with ID cards."
Still, they got a nice headline out of it.
Oh - The Metro is owned by the same people as The Daily Mail - which is probably the most horridly right wing paper in the UK mainstream.
