From a link kindly passed on by Sam Vega, we have the BBC in full-on Newspeak mode.
Ambulance strike: A&Es braced for influx of post-strike patients
Hospitals were quieter than normal during Wednesday's ambulance strikes, but Thursday is likely to be "very challenging" with lots of patients turning up, health bosses say.
Only the most serious 999 calls were responded to.
Jason Killens, chief executive of the Welsh Ambulance Service where 50% of ambulance service workers went on strike, warned of a rise in demand for ambulances after fewer people called 999.
He told BBC Breakfast: "I wouldn't necessarily say we got away with it yesterday - there was certainly a lot of disruption - a lot of patients that waited longer than we would have liked and there some patients that didn't get a response at all, so there is definitely an impact on communities as a result of the strike action."
It's a typical of the BBC to include a quote where patients that didn't get a response leads to an impact on communities. Not of course an impact on real people. Can't say that.
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To the Utopian (usually left wing) the community and the collective are the "Community" and the "Collective" with much greater importance than the separate individuals that are contained within that concept. A consequence is that Utopians slide into totalitarianism and the mere individuals are discounted, sometimes to death.
I'm afraid that the BBC is just supporting the world as they see it. It's about time it was broken up.
"there some patients that didn't get a response at all, so there is definitely an impact on communities as a result of the strike action."
If you just cut those services where people didn't get a response at all, that would have an effect on the community, wouldn't it! They'd be able to keep more of their own money, for a start. Because I'm sure that if anyone had died or been worse off than the standard BBC shroud-waving stories, we would never hear the end of it.
People who think in clichés don't have the intelligence that the situation demands.
DJ - yes, the language is a clue to the outlook of BBC folk and their lack of interest in people as individuals outside their own social group. Except as a source of political point-scoring stories of course.
Sam - if anyone does die, I'm sure it will be presented as the fault of the government too. Mad really - but predictable.
decnine - the BBC would be on a hiding to nothing if it got rid of clichés.
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