... effect on what is and isn't reported and how it's reported. Owners and editors usually have sponsors and support from many powerful people and to keep these alliances they will not report anything insulting, damaging or contradictory against them, this can result in stories being changed, details being left out or not being reported at all. The G.U.M.G found an example of this in a speech made by the Prime minister about the 1975 Leyland Strike, he had made an appeal to management and unions but when it was shown on the BBC news the speech was edited as an appeal just to workers. This implies that the workers are at fault and are the ones who need to reconcile and creates bias against the workers and reflects them unfairly and in a negative light. This is a result of the powerful (the BBC) can change a story to inject false opinions and ...

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