Is the Mail getting dizzy?

[jake-the-peg]

It seems half the Poles have gone home (Will we ever get a plumber now?)

Have a read of Reuters

http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idU KL3059035020080430

Compare and contrast the Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=562943&in_page_i d=1770

Is this the same story?

Amazingly the headline angle has changed and you have to read over half way down the article to find the following facts:

They are 84% employed 9% more than natives
On average they work 4 hours a week longer than Brits.

Thankfully though the Mail's speed dial to Migration Watch is there to remind us that the panic is not over.

Is this the sort of spin that papers like the Mail are always accusing the Government of?

Spin? from the Newspaper of the year? Surely not!

[Octavius]

The important thing to the Mail readers - who all have first hand experience of these nasty Johnny foreigners taking over our country - is that at least a million (if not more) of them have flooded in huge numbers to steal our jobs, our women and live in our council homes, saturate our health services and get free library books.

The fact that half of all those who arrived have also left would imply that our beloved country aint all that great and this might just be too much to bear for your staunch patriot, especially as you can no longer get your patio done on the quick and cheap or Waitrose's fruit and veg doesn�t get picked, and that if they all leave they will have to think of something/someone else to pick on (blame) when the work that is below the aspirations of your average out of work Brit, doesn�t get done.

[Booldawg]

However did we cope BEFORE they came? *mocks faint*

[123everton]

Come Sunday the headline will read "HOUSE PRICES TO CRASH" and it'll all be the fault of the emigrant Poles leaving in their thousands causing a surfeit of property.
But not to worry because on page 30 of the supplement will be the chance to win a villa in Spain, you won't find any immigrants there....will you?

[shanx]

oh! so that means we will be left with all the criminals booted out off their own country , and if they commit a crime here wont be sent back because they own country refuse them . nice

[jake-the-peg]

Hmm I don't think the average prisoner is polish - maybe I need to read the Mail more!

Seriously though I'm less concerned about the details of the story but how blatently it's been manipulated - yes I know all the papers do this although the broadsheets are more subtle.

Everybody rants on about kids doing media studies as an easy option but I tend to think that we need to educate kids a lot more about the manipulation that goes on in newspapers.

I find it difficult to believe the number of people on here that seem to take whaat they read in the press at face value - especially if it reinforces their prejudices.

[Octavius]

....er, present company excepted...?