Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Coming at a news story from just one point of view
BBC Today programme 07:00 news and a short item that said that (I paraphrase) children in poor areas are more likely to be killed by cars than those in rich areas and that it was unclear if this was due to the relative lack of places to play in poorer areas or because richer children were carried everywhere in big cars. Of course, I shouted at the car radio, it could also be because drivers in poor areas drove less carefully but somehow I doubt that such a thought would be allowed to be expressed on the impeccably left-of-centre BBC Today programme. The result was that I turned on the radio to hear the news and turned it off within 30 seconds; is there an alternative source of morning news that I will find less biased?
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It's not just about the carefulness or otherwise of drivers, it is more likely to be the age at which children are allowed to roam the streets unsupervised by an adult. There is a housing eatste near to where I live where it is common to see children as young as 4 being supervised by a 6 year olds, crossing roads and playing on the roads. This does not happen with middle class children.
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