FACT CHECKING WEEKLY 20/5/2016

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One of the reasons citizen media has evolved in to such a formidable (but very likeable) beast is that it recognises that the corporate media leave stuff out they don’t like or agree with. This results in bias and confusion amongst the public. This won’t go away but it can be partially redeemed by becoming empowered to find out for ourselves and to find sources that focus solely upon the facts and their analysis. With this in mind Dorset Eye has utilised a wonderful charity that does just this.

Every Friday we will publish their update from the previous week and enable our readers to fact check some of the most discussed and debated national issues over the previous seven days.

Some of the highlights this week:

‘The proposed EU-US trade deal known as TTIP might have implications for public services, but EU officials want to include wording designed to keep governments free to run services like the NHS. This should stop the NHS from having to be opened up to US companies, although it may still mean that undoing NHS privatisation in future is more expensive. That would depend on what an international court makes of the agreement, which is still being negotiated.’

You can join the discussion/debate on these issues and many others at https://www.facebook.com/dorset.eye and/or 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/280126085520259/

AND on Twitter at @dorset_eye.

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