Articles should come with the equivalent of “health warnings”. This Guardian article should have one reading “Very biased – read with care – can result in false impression syndrome”.
The article is a collection of ‘interviews’ with the 60-Plus. There is nothing wrong in this approach to journalism but when all of the interviews read the same and have as a constant theme, “look how happy you can be once you are 60”, it results in a distorted and wrong description of the age group.
True to its leftist, politically correct form the Guardian has selected its interviewees with care. There is the literary secretary of the Socialist party of Great Britain, an Indian doctor and a lady from Jamaica. Strange there were no interviews with retired lorry drivers, shop assistants or housewives.
Have a quick read but do remember this is a highly distorted vision of the world.
Most articles do contain something of value and you might want to make note of these few snippets of information.
“The Health Protection Agency reports that more 60-Plus are catching sexually transmitted diseases. In the age group 45-64, syphilis increased by 275% between 1995 and 2003, Chlamydia by 175%, and gonorrhoea by 254%. Dateline (a large UK dating agency), says that more than half the million people registered with it are over 50.
Wow. Dick Stroud www.20plus30.com
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