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General => News => Topic started by: Macruran on January 24, 2015, 22:33:17

Title: PM BBC
Post by: Macruran on January 24, 2015, 22:33:17

Look at the picture in the middle of the article:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30849473

Title: Re: PM BBC
Post by: Pynedor on January 24, 2015, 22:55:24

That's interesting. That picture is of the Playmobil Suite in the Waldorf Hilton. They probably had that stock picture from a story on the 40th Anniversary.

Title: Re: PM BBC
Post by: Rasputin on January 25, 2015, 00:43:28

With out Pynedor saying it was a hotel I would have assumed it was a kids room, an awesom one at that. Now to actually read  :P

Title: Re: PM BBC
Post by: Ismene on January 25, 2015, 13:57:49

Sloppy reporting to use a hotel picture for an article about people accumulating too much stuff

Title: Re: PM BBC
Post by: hauden_lukas on January 25, 2015, 15:26:21

They also surveyed our place. But the original text got modified for we were a statistical outlier in the category "toys".

Here is their first version:

Quote from: BBC

The other homes were just as packed. One family in the US had 39 pairs of shoes, 90 DVDs or videos, 139,325,545 toys, 212 CDs and 438 books and magazines. They had so many things that they kept household stuff in the garage. There was so much stuff in there, there was no room left for cars.

Title: Re: PM BBC
Post by: Macruran on January 25, 2015, 16:52:51

hahaha nice one