Fake News: Benefit Cap – Shoddiest of inept journalism from The Guardian – SPeye Joe (Welfarewrites)
Joe Halewood has done some good detective work here.
It would be easy for people to ignore those obvious piece of ‘fake news’ if they had no particular interest in the subject matter; fortunately Joe has years of experience and has unpicked the story with ease.
Please visit his site for the full details.
Today Dawn Foster in the Guardian takes false information from a local newspaper that in turn comes from obvious false information from a local council and reports it as fact concerning the overall benefit cap.
Can anyone please tell me how the 62 existing families who already faced a cut to their housing benefit BEFORE this further cut of £115.38 per week can suddenly reduce in number by 32% to just 42 families affected and NO NEW families are affected by the £115.38 pw or £500 pcm cut are affected?!
It is abundantly clear this article in the Grimsby Telegraph by Michelle Hurst is the shoddiest of shoddy journalism and is patently false.
Perhaps the fact the Grimsby Telegraph reports that the previous cap was £23,000 per year and not £26,000 may give you a clue as the journalistic credibility of Michelle Hurst reader?
Yet when such lazy journalism is then picked up and reported as fact by the Guardian then it is Dawn Foster who deserves the most rebuke as a national newspaper with its much larger circulation and especially online presence (and who proclaims “Facts are sacred” on its masthead!) allows the post-truth society to become reality with such shoddy journalism.
Source: Benefit Cap – Shoddiest of inept journalism from The Guardian – SPeye Joe (Welfarewrites)
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