There is a huge difference between a channel broadcasting what is conflicting views and picking the worst case every time, fair enough, but the bbc are factually inaccurate.
As said, I sat and watched fergus Walsh early this week on the six o clock news proclaim that our death rate was doubling every two days and we would hit a thousand deaths a day by now.
This was utterly factually inaccurate, there is no way round it. We have been doubling every three to four days, and have not doubled every two days since the beginning a few weeks ago.
To sit there and say we are doubling every two days and would be hitting a thousand deaths a day is either hugely incompetent or the man was scaremongering. There is no excuse for it. It was basic most kids could do.
So, we can say fair enough, the bbc goes for worst case and treating it with the caution and seriousness it deserves, fine. But no one can excuse factually incorrect reporting. Particularly not at a time like this, or when to check the facts is as simple as getting your calculator out and adding two sets of numbers together. Or even friggen listening to the press conference where the math was even done for them.
As said, the editor also did an interview on the six o clock and proclaimed experts looks only at death rates. If he’d bothered his arse to watch the press conference at any stage, he’d have heard them say they look at transport, rate of infection, hospitalisations, icu cases, and deaths.
These are only two examples, but it’s a regular occurrence these men go on that program and talk absolute and utter bollocks.