Scope should make formal complaint about the Press?

Cantilip

Upset and distress here is fuelled by confused mish-mash in Google feeds from lazy journalists who do not check their facts. This does no good to anyone. Often the headline is deliberate clickbait to frighten people.

https://www.ipso.co.uk/making-a-complaint/

Cantilip

Some people think silence is consent.

WhatThe

Cantilip, it is our responsibility to check fact from fiction. The disabled community has been silent for too long - 10 years to be precise. These are not new policies and people like me have never stopped protesting against what was to come.

Jimm_Alumni

I can talk to our press team next week about what is usually done in these situations. I think a big issue is that there is so much bad content out there it's hard to report all of it.

Cantilip

I think the basic point is the facts are on www.gov.uk. Any journo not checking the facts is negligent, any 'Chinese whispers', I heard it from who heard it from and was was reported last week in our sister paper, who got it from gabbing in a pub with a local councillor. After that examples could be given. It strikes me so much of it is the same mistakes. One is associating PIP with work capacity and implying that any changes to the WCA will affect people's PIP. Another is insinuating the proposed changes to PIP are done and dusted.

Frightening and confusing the old is also a bit of a larf. My 'favourite' is headlined 'State Pensioners warned letter on doormat could mean payments will stop'. It appears to be something to do with mixed age couples If you're claiming tax credits and are over pension age you should claim pension credit instead because the previous payments will be stopped, think I got that bit, not that it applies to me, but the thought of people in their 90s being confronted with this stuff is not appealing.

Sandy_123

The papers try to click bait on their benefit posts to divide people who don't have a clue

WhatThe

The facts published on gov websites are never complete or up-to-date.

The facts as recorded in Hansard are not conclusive either.