Do the Daily Mail make things up?

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**Sidstyler**

I love how the picture of Ibrahim they posted depicts him in the most evil way possible, head low with a cigarette in his mouth, and the picture of Amy next to him has her dressed up as an angel with her hands clasped in prayer.

Subtle.

**Hawkins**

All news agencies, either TV, paper, internet... all of them are around for one thing and one thing only. to sell themselves. free press, un-bias news, real stories, are just fiction. bottom line, contraversy sells, and the more sensational and twisted a paper can make a story the more money they make. so yes. news agensies are so twisted they make a cork screw seem strait.

**Sidstyler**

Which is endlessly frustrating and sad. You can't trust anyone or anything anymore, everything you hear on TV or read in a newspaper could be complete and utter bs made to make you react just how someone with more money than you wants you to.

**Kilkrazy**

reds8n wrote:I mean Dacre will get one.

My cunning joke was too well hidden, think about it...

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Sidstyler wrote:Which is endlessly frustrating and sad. You can't trust anyone or anything anymore, everything you hear on TV or read in a newspaper could be complete and utter bs made to make you react just how someone with more money than you wants you to.

Fortunately, a knowledge of science, maths and statistics offer us tools with which we can evaluate the quality of stuff we get told by the media.

Actually a bit of common sense can help a lot. For example, three points for evaluating IT proposals:

1. What problem is this supposed to solve? (Is there a real problem at all...)
2. Who benefits from the implementation? (The end user, the supplier, the IT department...)
3. What will it cost?