Thursday, 16 July 2009

Well spotted!

There's an article on the BBC website headed Benefit tenants 'rip off' landlords, which I dutifully read as I'm interested in welfare reform, the Local Housing Allowance and so on. Read it if you can be bothered and make up your own mind whether this is anecdotal or the tip of the iceberg (and yes, the government were warned that this would happen ...).

But the article itself isn't the interesting bit, what is interesting is, as Tudorian pointed out over at HPC, that it's "written by the BBC Asian Correspondent."

Then read the article again and look at the names of the people who were interviewed ...

2 comments:

Pavlov's Cat said...

Not being a conspiracy theorist , but this appears now to have been edited on BBC site since yesterday, to give a shall we say a more 'colour balanced' view.

Bruce said...

Shocking one-sided article whatever the case. And, speaking as a former journalist, those tenant quotes at the end entirely sound made-up to me.