Slanted reporting of a debatable opinion poll redoubles anxiety and sows divisions. The terrorists could not hope for more“The way we see things is affected by what we know and what we believe, wrote John Berger in Ways of Seeing. “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”The discrepancy between what people think they know and what is actually the case often explains why they are so unsettled. Anti-immigration sentiment across Europe begins to effect more sense when you realise that Brits and Spaniards think they have twice as many immigrants in their country as they actually attain, the Italians, or Belgians and French assume there are three times as many as there are,the Hungarians eight times and the Poles more than 30 times.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com