As mentioned earlier, the press often focus primarily on the effects of disputes rather than the causes. The solution to the problems is also given far less precedence than the creation or threat of the disputes. For example, in 1978, after several weeks of giving major prominence to the effects of the series of one-day rail strikes, when these were called off the news gave the dispute more restrained treatment. Similarly, the end of the lorry driver's strike received much less coverage than the calling of the dispute and the gloomy predictions of disaster famine and mass unemployment that accompanied it. .
Many stories during this period failed to mention the actual cause of the disputes. Where wage claims were mentioned this was often in terms of percentage increases which, as most journalists recognise, people find it very difficult to relate to their own wages or standard of living. For example, the Daily Mail story of February 1st 1978, mentioned that the men on strike were requesting a 46 per cent pay increase, however, it was not mentioned how much they earned or how much they would earn as a result of the increase. .
In the first six months of 1975, half of all industrial stories in the news bulletins were concerned with only three industries - transport and communication, public administration and overwhelmingly vehicle manufacture. The coverage of these industrial disputes was presented with the usual distortion and bias. During this period, the 2.1 per cent of Britain's workforce who make cars and other vehicles received 24.4 per cent of the television news" general industrial coverage. .
A similar distortion was displayed when assessing all strike coverage from the same period. Shipbuilding and engineering, with a high incidence of strikes, received negligible coverage. Mining, construction and chemical industries received no coverage at all. Of the twenty principal disputes singled out by the Department of Employment as being significantly bad on the economy, nine were not mentioned at all on television news.
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