This week, even as the debate on migration continues to ratchet up across the world, media headlines on the situation in Ireland, which has seen unprecedented levels of immigration in recent years without any corresponding public debate, could be described as, well, a bit deceptive.
Not deliberately deceptive, of course, just misleading in the way that, say, ‘fact checkers’ might frown upon when pointing out that a report is “missing context” or data is selectively used or taken from a narrow window. That’s always been the case: the old adage about lies, damn lies, and statistics sometimes has the ring of truth about it. So while a snapshot of a given period might be accurate, it often needs to be judged against the bigger picture.
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