Daily Mail gypsy/NHS poll on The Now Show
BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show picked up on the now-notorious Daily Mail ‘gypsy/NHS’ poll in the first episode of its new series.
On Saturday June 20 Journalism.co.uk’s John Thompson reported:
“The UK-based Mail Online was forced to shut down one of its online polls yesterday after a concerted campaign by Twitter users and, Journalism.co.uk can reveal, UK-based psychologists, nearly brought their servers to a halt with an overwhelming ‘yes’ vote.”
“The poll, which asked the somewhat leading question ‘Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue,’ attracted ridicule from many within the Twitter community leading to, at one point a 96% vote in favour of the proposition.”
Listen to The Now Show’s take on it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00l6fzl
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