Misleading Headline?

[sp1814]

Is the Mail on Sunday trying to stir up hatred against gay people (again)?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2714321/NHS-fund-sperm-bank-lesbians-New-generation-fatherless-families-paid-YOU.html

[mikey4444]

sp...you are being reasonable and logical...not always popular on here !

I agree...the headline IS misleading but its the headline that DM readers want to see. If they were interested in a balanced report, they wouldn't be reading the DM !

[sp1814]

AOG

"There appears to be some who won't be happy until men are made a redundant species."

Really?

I mean...really!

You know this story is about sperm banks right?

And you know where they get their 'product' from, yes?

[mushroom25]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8682142/Stem-cells-used-to-make-artificial-sperm.html

[scooping]

sp1814: I am talking about people who whinge abut our media and don';t seem to understand the value of a vibrant and free Press.There is censorship, in varying degrees, across the planet. Bout time we celebrated the right of newspapers to say what they want, within the law.

[sp1814]

AOG

Are you saying that the headline in the paper version of the Mail on Sunday is an accurate reflection of the facts?

And why, in the online version is the word 'YOU' capitalised? To me, that suggests that childless couples (both gay and straight) are not part of the Mail's demographic.

Or....?

[naomi24]

Yes, the headline is utterly misleading. That said, I don’t believe the NHS should be in this business at all. It has far more crucial things to spend its money on.

[ToraToraTora]

ok let me have a go at the headline: "NHS to Fund Sperm bank for women who want to create fatherless children" - Better?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Do you think the headline is misleading? ///

No because the report mentions that there is an increase in demand from Lesbians.

And the headline is no more misleading than such as this "Putin shot down Malaysian airliner"

[sp1814]

TTT

Still way off.

The headline should actually read:

"Department of Health to operate sperm bank for women and couples"

Also, this isn't being funded by the NHS. There is a cost to the patient. It's £300. I assume this goes to cover startup costs and admin fees.

[sp1814]

AOG

I now completely understand your point of view with regards to the news content of the Daily Mail.

[lindapalmara]

I don't usually look at these forums, being interested in some of the others but came across it when searching for something else. So shocked at some of these answers. I think 'sp' that most people would rather NHS money be spent on life saving operations for children and drugs for cancer patients than designer babies for single women and gay people. I have no problem with lesbians (my daughter being one but should she ever want a baby she certainly wouldn't expect the state to pay for it) but let's get our priorities right in this bankrupt NHS. As for Mikey, I am signing off as a girl from a Northern Mill Town, brought up in a Council house, started work at 15, lifelong DM AND MOS reader!!!!!

[naomi24]

sp, but it's being funded by the public purse ....

//Funded by a £77,000 Government grant, the bank will be run by the National Gamete Donation Trust (NGDT) which this year received an additional £120,000 of public money to organise egg and sperm donation. //

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// But moaning at the DM is like peeing into the wind. The DM prints what DM readers want to read...DM readers don't read anything that challenges their narrow right-wing view of life, otherwise they probably wouldn't read the DM in the first place. Just ignore the paper sp, even when its being misleading and offensive. ///

Mmmmm, perhaps you should consider terminating your Answerbank membership?

*** The Answerbank was started in 2000 by a company called FreontOfMind which is a subsidiary of The Daily Mail. ***

[lindapalmara]

I second that!!!

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// sp...you are being reasonable and logical...not always popular on here ! ///

Don't you mean that he goes along with your own particular view point, and that anyone who opposes you is deemed by yourself, to be both unreasonable and illogical?

[Baldric]

What on Earth gives same sex couples of either sex reason to think they have a 'right' to have children?

[naomi24]

Baldric, pass.

[sp1814]

lindapalmara

The thing is - the system will be open to all, same as with private clinics. It's also predicted to be self-financing by the end of the year - so no cost to the tax-payer.

[sp1814]

naomi24

Again - those using the service will pay for it, so it will become self funding. The payments will go back into the coffers.

[sp1814]

This is what happens with misleading headlines.

People will go away with the idea that this scheme is exclusively for same sex couples.

If you look at the facts as they have been presented (albeit further into the report), you can see that it's not limited in any way.

AOG - you have often stated that you abhor prejudice and simply want a level playing field for all. Doesn't this story suggest just that? You posted on the first page of this thread that sperm banks should be for heterosexual couples only, but why?