Sunday, May 06, 2012

Obvious omission...


LOL! Look at a word cloud of the BBC coverage of Boris Johnson's London Mayoral Election win "BBC - Boris Johnson wins second term by tight margin"; click on the image to visit word cloud by Billy no mates on Wordle. [Edited: 'dead' image/video removed] Needless to say, even glancing at the small image - with only six or seven words clearly visible - it isn't hard to get what the BBC prefer to talk about. Also, reading the BBC London Political Editor Tim Donovan's Ken love-in, could it be that's because Boris - on other issues - thinks he's talking fucking bollocks.

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3 comments:

Jaz said...

But when you take into account the synonyms for Conservative(Tory, Tories) you find the word Labour mentioned 13 times against 11 for the synonyms. The reason for the extra mentions of Labour is because the piece also includes a wrap of election results elsewhere. That is where the two extra mentions of Labour come in.

Span Ows said...

That's a good bit of detective work Jaz! I just went and did the same thing to check and got 13 to 12 (so closer still!) Mind you I got a shock until I realised 'story' and victory' all came up as Tory too!

That said, I am not a fan of 'Tory/Tories' or the general use of it (including by Conservative MPs etc!) because it tends to be used in a 'nasty' sense and 'spat out' rather than Conservative.

Span Ows said...

...still made me laugh though! ;-)