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Monday, 7 April 2008

BBC using loaded language

The BBC News website has a page explaining "some of the impending changes to your personal finances this year.". This is mostly informative and impartial but one line sticks out like a sore thumb. This line appears in the first section on Income Tax and national Insurance, the line is this (my emphasis)"The small but vocal group of tax-payers known as the non-domiciled, will now have to pay £30,000 a year to keep their privileged tax status, once they have had it for seven years."

"Small but vocal group", how does that fit into the impartial, factual article? Maybe "Pensioners are getting higher winter fuel payments." should be written as "The large number of unfashionably dressed Pensioners are getting higher winter fuel payments."


The BBC not scared of letting class warfare intrude into a factual article.

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