Originally posted by Bosse de NageYou are welcome, although I find it hard you've never checked it
Thanks Seitse for posting this thread or I never would have checked out the fantastic BBC website. What variety! What choice! Can't wait to tune in to Radio Ulster...
out before so... is your post sarcastic? lol 😞
Check BBC Radio!! Jazz channel will blow your mind 😉
For an education in how effective point of view can be, try watching one of the chinese (in english) channels for a while. You slowly start to see china in a completely different light. (big success story). It makes you realise that:
1. Propaganda works
2. Western news gives you a very negative attitude to the far east (and the middle east) and maybe not all of it is valid.
3. Whether mostly possitive or mostly negative news is reported changes your whole perception of a place.
One false perception I have noticed in South Africa, is that many people equate frequency of news reports with frequency of events. For example if the papers all of a sudden decide to report on one particular type of crime then everybody thinks that that type of crime is increasing in frequency. But when you look at police stats less than 1% of actual crimes are reported in the news and the frequency of stories bears no relation to the frequency of events.
People also have and extremely poor understanding of statistics and its implications and think that one shooting in a school in the US means that all US schools are dangerous. I am sure that other causes of death such as drugs or even car accidents far out number death by firearm on school grounds but these do not hit the headlines in the same way.