....dire.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-36952432
This reinforces my view that it's becoming more and more trashy with lower quality reporting? There have been more and more sensationalist headlines and I've also read a lot of badly researched articles too.
This one is especially irritating; shocking picture of sick child + misrepresentative sensationalist headline "worst case" + lets launch a campaign = classic tabloid article formula. Very disappointing BBC!
I also find it irresponsible of the BBC to have used the line "worst [ever] case", given this is clearly bollocks (the boy did not die, that would be the worst case. Nor did he even spend months in ICU with organ failure / encephalitis / acquire brain damage etc. Actually, he had a lot of horrid looking spots, some complications and was discharged after 5 days and was well enough to go on TV a fortnight later, as far as I understand). I really do not think that one somewhat worse case than usual warrants a petition for change in NHS vaccination policy.
Surely a better headline would have been "child has quite bad case of Chicken Pox which prompts distressed mother to petition for knee jerk reaction cause"? Oh, wait, that's not very shareworthy !
(No, I'm not trying to start a vaccination debate, I'm sure there is a thread for that elsewhere.)
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