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Originally Posted by Ryewolf90
They were also given the freedom to to choose how they provided services based on consultations, of 190,000 asked 52% were in favour of reforming or abolishing free licence scheme.
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I wonder, Ryewolf, if you got this analysis off the BBC itself?
The BBC is well versed in manipulating statistics and presenting them as if they are hard facts and just about every news item on its website and radio channels (don’t know about TV as we don’t have one) has been pushing this 52% lie.
However, the actual consultation response was that 37% of the public wanted what the BBC has decided. 15% wanted the tax abolished completely. But the single biggest proportion was the 48% who did NOT want any change. The BBC simply combined the first two and claimed that 52% voted for “some form of change” (read its report, it took some finding, believe me).
This is typical of the misinformation for which more and more of us realise the BBC is quite happy to put out if it suits its political agenda.
So, notwithstanding its manipulations, the BBC is quite content to see 52% as an overwhelming endorsement of its actions.
Funny, though how exactly the same 52% for a vote to leave the EU has not prevented the BBC spending the last three years promoting the ‘rights’ of the 48% who voted remain.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/abouttheb...n-document.pdf