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I don't think it's so cut and dry. The Telegraph stupidly exaggerated the results of the poll in order to generate a click-baity headline, which was completely
by SuddsMcDuff 7y ago
I don't think it's so cut and dry. The Telegraph stupidly exaggerated the results of the poll in order to generate a click-baity headline, which was completely un-necessary. Then you have publications like the New Statesman who then exaggerated the transgression by the Telegraph, calling them "Lies, damned lies", as if 99% of the mainstream media don't exaggerate things in exactly the same way, all whilst injecting a bit of their own unfounded hysteria into the mix ("empty shelves and lorry queues and punch ups outside pharmacies that will inevitably follow").
The media is spiralling out of control. Each trying to out-do the other with ever more outrageous claims and deceitful exaggerations until the whole thing has escalated to tribalistic warfare. Casualty #1: rational debate.
- inflatableDodo 7y ago>you have publications like the New Statesman who then exaggerated the transgression by the Telegraph, calling them "Lies, damned lies" Ahh, I think you may have completely missed the context there. As the article is about polling, they are referencing the old phrase 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.' that was first popularised by Twain, who attributed it to Disrali. Is a sardonic framing, not an ernest entreaty.