Whatever happened to fact checking?
Here is a scan of part of page from today's Telegraph (That's page 21, fact fans):
Anything strike you as odd? Well, the East Midlands would appear to be a hotbed of tree-hugging, with two Greens, two Tories, one Socialist and a Lib Dem.
What actually happened in the East Midlands is that they elected two Tories, two UKIPers, a Socialist and a Lib Dem. Such an easy mistake to make....
Anything strike you as odd? Well, the East Midlands would appear to be a hotbed of tree-hugging, with two Greens, two Tories, one Socialist and a Lib Dem.
What actually happened in the East Midlands is that they elected two Tories, two UKIPers, a Socialist and a Lib Dem. Such an easy mistake to make....
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Guardian had a similar couple of mistakes on Monday.
Vive l'Euroscepticisme.
Not quite as bad as the shocker of a map they cranked out a year or so back.
And here where the Telegraph reports in the third paragraph that the Tories got 37% in 2004.
Personally thought that it was 26.7%.
But may just be a pedant for accuracy too.
Geoff - time to dust of an irregular verb:
I value accuracy, you nitpick, he is a pedant....
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