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Public perceptions of crime at odds with reality, study finds (www.kcl.ac.uk)
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We have some of the most popular newspapers in this country printing abject lies and half truths all year long

If you're right wing in the UK and your media diet is typical for that, you're basically living in a fictional reality. That's why polling and conversing with the brainwashed is so baffling