It’s The Sun Wot Won It

[摘要] ‘It’s The Sun Wot Won It’ was the headline that The Sun chose for their newspaper on 11 April 1992. It was in response to the slim Conservative victory in the general election when the preceding polls had suggested that Neil Kinnock’s Labour were on course for an equally slim victory. The Sun had campaigned hard against Kinnock who, himself, blamed The Sun for his loss.Since then the headline has become somewhat of an urban legend of how the media can influence rather than inform the public. This was further demonstrated in a more eerie fashion by an insidious experiment carried out by Facebook in January 2012 where the emotions of users (689 003 people) were, unknowingly to them, manipulated by showing them more ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ posts.1DISPROPORTIONATE HYSTERIA Occasionally, the worlds of media and health care can clash in a way that has pronounced consequences in the real world.

[学科分类] 卫生学