Director of NIESR blogs about getting inaccurate stories corrected

"The key is to make complaints strictly factual, and backed up by references to the relevant facts and statistics, from official sources if possible."

That's according to Jonathan Portes, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, who wrote last week about his experience of getting corrections to stories ranging from the Prime Minister's assertion in the Daily Telegraph that the number of workless households "doubled during the boom years", when it had fallen, to claims that all or most "new jobs" were going to immigrants, a familiar misunderstanding we've seen before.

We agree: getting corrections is possible and does make a difference, so if you see something, say something: to us if you're too busy, directly to the newspaper, or if necessary to the PCC. And please let us know how it goes.