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July 04, 2005
The Times becomes the Daily Mail
The headline on the Times today is all a bit Daily Mail, it's a bold declaration stating one in 10 teenage boys carries a gun! The headline is blatantly alarmist and reading further the stats are for inner city boroughs of London (and not for the UK as a statistic on a front page would be interpreted) and includes replica guns and the like but I struggle to believe this is true. (I'd love to hear from any youth workers who work in the areas cited for their estimate). I know there's a growing culture of young people being "tooled up" especially with knives but I'm struggling to accept the statistic and am certainly hacked off with the Times for a misleading headline that continues to stigmatise young people and encourage fear and mistrust.
Posted by ian at July 4, 2005 01:51 PM
Comments
The headline was probably written by the same person responsible for the shampoo advert announcing that 76% of women reported an improvement, while a little bit of text at the bottom of the screen says that 50 women were asked...
Posted by: NickJ at July 4, 2005 10:07 PM