The MSP quoted in the article has come out and claimed she was misquoted and didn't realise what the article was about. Sounds to me like politicians need to stop prostrating themselves in front of the tabloids to me. OK, that's like asking a fish to give up water.
There are a couple of interesting developments here - first the Labour Party is apparently gearing up for a post-newspaper future by copying the Obama campaign (which, realising it couldn't compete and there wasn't any point, bypassed conventional news media and went straight for a massive local organisation campaign), secondly various political blogs are starting to make their own news by issuing briefing documents. Like this one:
http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/200...ector-testing/
This again links into a general feel that conventional journalism is doing a very bad job of holding people to account and a very good job of enabling all sorts of quackery and bad policy to develop, usually at the public expense. Come to think of it, that's what New Labour is, isn't it?
The sheer effort and skill put into combating this is perhaps what I like about the British political blogs at present and the best answer to the question 'what is it all for?'.
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Various media outlets have earlier been fed examples of local authorities using lie detection technology to tackle benefit fraud: this BBC article, this Times piece and in the Birmingham Post. But while some local authorities claim success in saving money - none of the coverage has questioned the scientific validity of the technology or its [lack of] reliability.
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