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There have been literally hundreds of articles about this in the mainstream media for well over a decade. Yes, Computer Weekly and Private Eye deserve the bigge
by ascorbic 3y ago
There have been literally hundreds of articles about this in the mainstream media for well over a decade. Yes, Computer Weekly and Private Eye deserve the biggest share of credit for persuing it, but it's simply not true to sat that the rest of media has ignored it. The real scandal is that even though it was widely reported, so little was done about it for years.
- hermitcrab 3y agoI would be interested to know the number of articles published on the scandal by mainstream papers, such as the independent, Guardian, Times and Telegraph.
- ascorbic 3y agoA quick search for ["post office" horizon] on The Times showed >700 articles. The Guardian and Independent both use Google, which show an improbable tens of thousands of results, but I'd imagine it's still similar to The Times.
- hermitcrab 3y agoRandomly selecting 2022, The Times seems to have published 5 articles substantially about the Horizons system. Its not nothing, but it is hardly a flood.
- alibarber 3y agoOne upshot of the current UK government being in such dire straits in terms of their popularity, and this scandal causing such a universal uproar in public opinion, is that they do seem to be bending to it and actually doing something. Enough? Probably not.