I was browsing the web as I am sometimes wont to do, and I noticed this headline on the RTE News website: “Abortion vote likely to fail in Portugal”. As I continued on my wanderings across the web, I came across this headline on BBC News: “Portugal will legalise abortion”.
Now both stories are, in their basics, the exact same. They both deal with the fact that the turn-out was too low to be legally binding, and that the Portuguese Prime Minister will bring a law before the parliament to legalise abortion anyway. The only significant differences between the two stories are the headlines.
What do you think are the chances that the different headlines are due to the fact that here is Ireland abortion is illegal, and in the UK it is not?
It’s for these type of reasons, that it’s important that you get your news from more than one source. If you don’t, you’ll never know if you’re being fed a line or not. Just ask the makers of “The Wind that Shakes the Barley“.