The Bbc's Alarmist Migrant Map

The BBC has today come upwards nether burn downwards for misrepresenting the scale of the divulge of migrants who guide maintain late attempted to come inwards the UK. In 2018 539 migrants were discovered trying to come inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland on modest boats. The divulge of migrants attempting to come inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland inwards this trend has risen over the terminal few months.

The BBC has attempted to visualize the recent rising inwards the divulge of migrants discovered trying to come inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland using an animated interactive map. The BBC's Where Migrants Have Been Discovered yesteryear Authorities map animates through the fourth dimension stream from Nov 1st to January 3rd, showing the twenty-four hr stream in addition to the locations where migrants guide maintain been flora trying to come inwards the UK.

The map uses scaled markers to correspond the divulge of migrants discovered at each location. It is these scaled markers where the BBC has live on into trouble. To assist legibility the BBC has provided a handy commutation to this scale:



Can you lot come across the work amongst this scale? Jo Wood has. On Twitter she pointed out that on this scale "the '80 or more' circle is over 130 times the expanse of the 'fewer than 5' circle". Jo has fifty-fifty helped the BBC out yesteryear providing a proportional scale.



The resultant of immigration is hugely contentious inwards a Britain preoccupied yesteryear Brexit. The BBC's map alone serves to hugely exaggerate the work of migrants trying to come inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland on modest vessels. I would similar to mean value that this misrepresentation of the work is an unintentional mistake yesteryear the BBC's cartographers. But in addition to then I would besides similar to mean value that the BBC would accept a fiddling to a greater extent than tending over its graphics.