Would you believe it if the NHS itself confirmed the story?
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Facts are facts whether Murdoch or some liberal rag tells them. What a cheap, lazy cop out to dismiss a story just because it appears in a paper with an editorial slant you don't like.
Dont get me wrong, I dont actually doubt the few actual facts that are on the table. Do doctors not tell relatives and family the whole story? Yes. Do doctors not do everything to save someone that is going to die anyways.. of course that is only humane. Do doctors actually help death along... officially nope, unofficially of course.
What I question is first the motivation of the publications.. which are actually well known, and secondly the "slant" and "twisting" of the facts in said publications. British newspapers are notorious in their ability to blow things out of proportions or slant things 180 degrees to meet a set political view or editorial stance.
In other words.. if the newspaper is against something, then all stories will be often slanted towards that regardless of the facts. So you could easily have two newspapers with the same story coming to totally different conclusions.. happens often.
That is why I am saying.. Daily Mail pft.. and The Telegraph .. Pft. Both have a history of hatred towards the NHS and have a history of taking isolated problems and blowing them up into a major country wide issue and demanding the heads of the NHS and pressing for privatization.
You have to remember that the Daily Mail is basically fascist. It is anti-European, xenophobic to borderline racist and supported Adolf Hitler and his movement in the Uk back in the day. To me it is amazing the newspaper was not shut down during WW2 after supporting the fascist movement.. but hey.
As for the Telegraph. Again very conservative leaning and that is because of its two owners.. billionaire twins who are recluses and well known supporters of the Tory party. Like it or not, the Tory party has a secret wish to make the UK health system into the American system, but knows that it cant be open about it, so it loves to find via its "friendly newspapers" issues in the NHS that can result in the changes that the Tory party wants.. more privatization. But they know that they cant be too open about it... it almost cost Maggie Thatcher.. well actually it pretty much did.. back in the day, and if they went out openly and said they wanted to get rid of the NHS and privatize it, then the Tories would become a very small party. Even in this government they went out openly and said "no cuts to care in the NHS" when in fact there has been massive cuts and it could very well cost them the next election if Labour runs on it.
So basically.. such stories in British newspapers have to be taken into context of the political stance of the newspaper and its history.