Here's an odd one

[Steve Harrison]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2096000/2096780.stm

What does this story prove? The headline says that one in four cars is unsafe which is clearly bo**ocks since it goes on to say that the inspectors picked out "Older cars and others thought likely to be poorly maintained"

So what they actually mean is "over three-quarters of cars which looked dodgy were actually OK"

Well, no because they don't say that either. In fact there's nothing about how many cars had minor defects.

While I don't doubt there are a lot of defective vehicles out there, this is a shoddy and meaningless piece of journalism.

Sadly typical of the BBC these days.

[CarZee]

quote:Sadly typical of the BBC these days.

Quite so - as I said recently, for whatever virtues the BBC still hold, their news coverage and contemporaneous journalism in general is a total disgrace.

[GRO]

To be fair it does Quote..

"At these sites we also pick out those vehicles which are most likely to be defective. So these results should not be considered in any way representative of the state of the nation's 24 million cars," he added.

And no I don't work for the BBC...