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Economic reporting and dirty tricks

michaels
michaels Posts: 29,511 Forumite
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in Debate House Prices & the Economy
Yesterday one of the top 10 most read stories on the BBC was about the double dip recession. Reasonable except this was a 2012 article and as we know in the end the stats confirmed the double dip never happened.

Today most read story number 6 is about Moody's removing AAA. Again a true story, from Feb 13.....

It just seems an odd coincidence that in the week of the Tory party conference thousands of people should suddenly decide to view these old articles pushing them into the most read list.....
I think....

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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    I wonder how many hits are needed for a story to be 6th most read?
  • daveyjp
    daveyjp Posts: 14,104 Forumite
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    This is happening a lot on BBC at the moment with random stories from years ago getting to the top of most read. Its self fulfilling because people click most read, realise its old, but by then they have visited so it stays up there.

    I suspect a glitch rather than any other reason as its not the first time it has happened and the BBC apologised for it.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    The BBC website has a similar readership to the Guardian
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    daveyjp wrote: »
    I suspect a glitch rather than any other reason as its not the first time it has happened and the BBC apologised for it.

    Not a well timed orchestrated maneouvre ?
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