Amanda Perthen, a freelance journalist writing for the Daily Mail, wrote some atrociously one-sided copy on domestic violence in the New Year (link).
In an article on 3rd January 2009 for the Daily Mail, she wrote about an increase in domestic violence because of the recession. This was because the National Centre for Domestic Violence reported a 40 per cent increase in victims seeking its support in December 2008.
The National Centre, to be fair, were gender neutral in their comments but the journalist skewed the whole feature towards men as perpetrators, female as victims. A comment from Womens Aid but none from Mankind Initiative or Men Aid. In addition, she just used the 1 in 4 women will be victims in their lifetime but did not use the 1 in 6 men.
Pure Bias as reflected in the comment at the bottom of her article.
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