The Met have ‘circulated the information’, and all of a sudden this changes to ‘Britain on alert’!
Nice to have balanced reporting.
A Mr. Atkinson of Sheffield commented on the Daily Mail article: ‘What better advert for this knife could there be? I had never heard of it until today, and now, every self-respecting nutter will be after one’
Quite so – there is no reason for this article in the Mail except to promote fear in it’s readers… what paper was this again? Ah, right. (I know that I could be accused of the same by mentioning it here, but who has the higher readership, me or a National newspaper?)
I’ve made two previous posts on the ‘knife crime epidemic’ which we keep hearing about in the UK, the original and the update.
Exploding Knife Tip Alert!
More Daily Mail Knife Crime Hysteria! (via Bruce Schneier)
The Met have ‘circulated the information’, and all of a sudden this changes to ‘Britain on alert’!
Nice to have balanced reporting.
A Mr. Atkinson of Sheffield commented on the Daily Mail article: ‘What better advert for this knife could there be? I had never heard of it until today, and now, every self-respecting nutter will be after one’
Quite so – there is no reason for this article in the Mail except to promote fear in it’s readers… what paper was this again? Ah, right. (I know that I could be accused of the same by mentioning it here, but who has the higher readership, me or a National newspaper?)
I’ve made two previous posts on the ‘knife crime epidemic’ which we keep hearing about in the UK, the original and the update.