Post by Teddy Bear on Jan 10, 2012 22:02:19 GMT
You may well have seen the news today that Immigration has had little effect on jobless in the UK.
What's that you say? Immigration has increased jobless in UK is the news?
Not according to the BBC, at least between 10:50am and 11:30 am this morning. This was the original headline - Immigration 'has had little impact on unemployment', despite a Migration Watch report which prompted the article, that showed the complete opposite. That however is not the view the BBC wants to promote, hence the headline.
Clearly with the rest of the media telling the story in completely the opposite angle, some BBC editor knew it was a bit too exaggerated to keep this headline so changed it 40 minutes later to Immigration from outside the EU is linked to UK jobless
They also decided to include a little more information than the original was going to show. Fortunately News Sniffer monitored this particular webpage and noted the changes to it.
Here's a snapshot:
What's that you say? Immigration has increased jobless in UK is the news?
Not according to the BBC, at least between 10:50am and 11:30 am this morning. This was the original headline - Immigration 'has had little impact on unemployment', despite a Migration Watch report which prompted the article, that showed the complete opposite. That however is not the view the BBC wants to promote, hence the headline.
Clearly with the rest of the media telling the story in completely the opposite angle, some BBC editor knew it was a bit too exaggerated to keep this headline so changed it 40 minutes later to Immigration from outside the EU is linked to UK jobless
They also decided to include a little more information than the original was going to show. Fortunately News Sniffer monitored this particular webpage and noted the changes to it.
Here's a snapshot: