UK - How the BBC can kill you

Take this BBC report on AIDS for example. Listen carefully to how the BBC describes the reasons for increases of HIV in Britain.

Two thirds of all new cases diagnosed last year [here in Britain] were in people who contracted HIV in other countries where the virus is more prevalent, such as sub-Saharan Africa.

And

"This is due to people living longer with HIV due to advances in treatment, sustained levels of newly acquired infections in gay men, further diagnoses among heterosexuals who acquired their infection in Africa, and cases being picked up earlier."

And

"Over two-thirds of diagnoses we see are from people who acquired their infection outside the UK.

I don't know about you but the impression I get from the BBC is that people on holiday, especially in Africa, are contracting HIV and bringing it back home. That impression is deepened by the lack of one important word missing from the entire BBC report - immigrants.

Now, let's look at how the Daily Mail reports on the same story.

Here's the Mail's headline: "3 in 4 new HIV cases in African immigrants"

Three in four of all new heterosexual cases of HIV in Britain last year were among African immigrants, according to official figures.

The vast majority of them contracted the disease overseas before moving to Britain, says the Health Protection Agency (HPA).

In total, almost 8,000 new cases of HIV were diagnosed last year - the vast majority among black Africans and gay men.

Doesn't the black, African, immigrant and gay community have a right to know that information? Doesn't HIV support groups have the right to know that information so they can be more proactive in stopping the spread of HIV? Doesn't the public have a need to know that information so as to be better informed when making political decisions on immigration policies? In short, doesn't the public have a right to know the truth? Instead, we are forced to pay the BBC to hide the truth and thereby endanger the public.

Read the Mail's report in its entireity and compare it to the BBC's report. Notice the Mail reports the information the BBC leaves out, is being used to combat the spread of HIV.

Here's another example.