[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Damien

Pretty bad story developing for the BBC. BBC (and some others including ITV) reporters tweeted that a Labour activist punched a Conservative staffer outside a hospital. They were apparently told this by Senior Tory sources.

However it turned out there was a video of the incident showing a Tory staffer walking into someone's arm: https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/09/labou...iser-11583590/

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1204100056762265600




The question is why did the BBC and ITV reporters just happily report this as if it were fact?

The Tories, for their part, seem to have planted the lie to deflect from this video: https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-09/...ospital-floor/

But that political parties will lie is almost a given - reporters taking them for their word them isn't.

More to the point who in the Tory party planted the lies? The least the inept reporters can do is name and shame the sources (bet one of their initials is DC...).

All to try and deflect from pictures of a kid getting treatment for pneumonia on a hospital floor, and Boris not wanting to know about it. A sick party and anyone that votes for them isn't much better.