It is not accidental. It is as well crafted a disinformation campaign as any used against enemies in warfare, with as delicate a touch as the best marketing campaigns.
a LOT of time and effort and brain power is used to create these misconceptions. On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is alarming that in a democratic society the public's knowledge is so > grossly incorrect on the key issues affecting society. How is it possible > to correctly select candidates, and to support the right policies if you > don't know what's going on? > > And on the other side, HOW did the public gain such badly skewed > perceptions about the society that they themselves are living in? > > I'm pointing at you politicians and mainstream media! > > > > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html > > - Benefit fraud: the public think that £24 of every £100 of benefits is > fraudulently claimed. Official estimates are that just 70 pence in every > £100 is fraudulent - so the public conception is out by a factor of 34. > > - Immigration: some 31 per cent of the population is thought to consist of > recent immigrants, when the figure is actually 13 per cent. Even including > illegal immigrants, the figure is only about 15 per cent. On the issue of > ethnicity, black and Asian people are thought to make up 30 per cent of the > population, when the figure is closer to 11 per cent. > > - Crime: some 58 per cent of people do not believe crime is falling, when > the Crime Survey for England and Wales shows that incidents of crime were > 19 per cent lower in 2012 than in 2006/07 and 53 per cent lower than in > 1995. Some 51 per cent think violent crime is rising, when it has fallen > from almost 2.5 million incidents in 2006/07 to under 2 million in 2012. > > - Teen pregnancy is thought to be 25 times higher than the official > estimates: 15 per cent of of girls under 16 are thought to become pregnant > every year, when official figures say the amount is closer to 0.6 per cent > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:365423 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
