{"id":48,"date":"2007-06-28T08:56:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T07:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2012-05-05T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T09:37:11","slug":"why-the-bbc-sucks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Why the BBC sucks (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>clipped from the BBC News website:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Many young people do not know how dangerous roads are for inexperienced motorists, a survey suggests.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some 32% thought that one in 40 drivers killed were aged under 25 and 5% thought it was one in 400, when the figure is actually 25% of deaths.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are two problems with this slack piece of journalism.<\/p>\n<p>1. What&#8217;s with the use of the word\u00a0&#8216;some\u20ac\u2122 in this context? Does the work experience trainee who wrote this piece mean &#8216;more\u00a0than 32%&#8217; &#8216;less\u00a0than 32%&#8217; or even &#8216;32%&#8217;? It&#8217;s a ridiculous use of the word &#8216;some&#8217;\u00a0in the\u00a0professional world of journalism. And yet&#8230;\u00a0have good trawl through the BBC News website and you&#8217;ll see they use &#8216;some&#8217;\u00a0in this context as a matter of routine. Twats.<\/p>\n<p>2. How confusing is the second paragraph? <em>32% of people thought one in 40, 5% thought one in 400<\/em> &#8211; that&#8217;s OK &#8211; but <em>the figure is actually 25% of deaths<\/em>. What on earth? Where&#8217;s the consistency?<\/p>\n<p>Shocking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to wonder if the BBC is employing an infinite number of monkeys&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/6247732.stm\">Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Brennig.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>clipped from the BBC News website: Many young people do not know how dangerous roads are for inexperienced motorists, a survey suggests. Some 32% thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}