Friday 18 September 2015

Out of context comment reporting shows media bias: How surprising!

All social media has been alive with activity since the Labour leadership election campaign began, but since the result last Saturday there has been an increasing focus on the lies, spin, and disinformation appearing in the media.

One Facebook member was so incensed at the video which appeared on the Conservative Party's Facebook page that used the out of context claim that Jeremy Corbyn said the death of Osama Bin Laden was a tragedy, he issued his own video (embedded below) showing the actual context in which the words Osama Bin Laden and death and tragedy appeared. Another member created the image on the right to rebut the claims appearing in the press.


It is, as you will see, not what the subsequent media hype claimed it was! Meanwhile, the original Press TV broadcast video can be seen in full here: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=056_1441034465

It just goes to show how biased and unreliable the press are and how we can be misled by reading it.