How News is reported

Here are two news stories in the same *cough* Newspaper 13 years apart ironically using the same headline.

NHS loses 15,000 hospital beds under New Labour

15.000 beds lost since Labour came to power....despite unprecedented investment.

NHS cuts 15,000 beds in six years: One in ten have been axed - equivalent to closing 24 hospitals, report reveals


Apparently under the current administration the NHS has "an obsession with shifting care out of hospitals".............nothing to say about the government in power.


The topic is about how News is reported.....NOT about the NHS

Re: How News is reported

Hi

All news is biased to some degree.

Those who attempt to report it fairly neutrally get hammered by both political extremes.

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In the first story the number was 199,000 beds to begin with, quite a lot more than in the second story 144,455, also which party was in power in the years before?
You can't really say the stories are the same.

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Under a Corbyn Government..(god forbid) there will be no dissent, all newspapers will be required to toe the party line and only post official government news, a bit like North Korea, China and Russia. Reporters and correspondents who insist in posting anything that criticises the government will be denied life insurance because of the increasing number of ‘accidents’ that they have involving loss of life

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You have missed my point, the stories are separated by 13 years and different governments so obviously not the same story.

It was the way the stories were reported that I is my point.

Under New Labour 15.000 beds have been lost......is the theme on one.

Same amount of beds in the other story, but 'critics' now blame the bed cutting on a NHS obsession of shifting care out of hospitals.

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Your comments prove my point......thanks.