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25 August 2008
We supported Lancet 2004, but scientific opinion seems to
be moving against the 2006 Lancet study (which estimated 601,000
violent deaths). There are more peer-reviewed papers casting
doubt on Lancet 2006 than corroborating it. More...
The BBC's top-level decisions on which news stories to cover,
and which to avoid, affects everything from BBC1 TV
to Ceefax. Headlines can give misleading impressions and,
as we've documented, the distorting effect can be dramatic.
More..
The BBC ran a headline story claiming massive levels of identity
fraud in the driving test system. We queried this with
the Driving Standards Agency and found that the BBC
were reporting flimsy speculation as fact. More...
Former Scotland Yard detective, John O'Connor, commented
that "this was a hopeless, incompetent terrorist attack
[...] so incompetent as to be almost laughable"
More at our blog...
• Majority of super-rich pay no income
tax...
• One wage not enough to live on...
• BBC removed details of Director
General's pay...
• Gap between rich and poor wider
than ever...
• More news...
Our email to the editor of BBC2's Newsnight on
the coverage of the disappearance of 4 yr-old Madeleine McCann
(plus his reply). More at our blog...
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