Anybody remember the old assertion:reason
multiple guess questions off of exam papers?

Well, recent BNP claims that the West Yorkshire
Media sector are ignoring various murders that
they're laying at the feet of the Asian communities
they're interpreting as a blow against them.

The actuality is simpler by far.

Being a predominantly white middle class sector,
and with the inherent shuddering racism that does
accompany this demographic and its perceptions
of otherness, in cultural terms, it's far more likely
they simply haven't got any inroads into these
communities.

I've worked in the sector and found a lot of racism,
particularly against the Asian, sorry "Paki", sectors
of the UK's communities.

The long and short of it is that while there are several
thriving sectors in which Indo-Asians are prominent,
journalism really isn't one.

As such the press have no option but to report what
The Police give them, as and when they give them
it.

Why do the BNP have a problem with noticing this?
Perhaps because it flies in the face of their "Well,
The Police are on [...the BNP's...] side." line.

Our local paper heads its comment column with,
amongst other things, a statement they follow "The
Policy of Honesty."

That is a joke, albeit in very poor taste.

My dealings with them suggest that whatever they
do mean by "Honesty" it's several continents away
from the expectation of British courts that evidence
presented wil be "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and
Nothing but The Truth."

But then my dealings with them have been grounded
in threats of perjury and adjounrments should I try to
address my complaints. And I have. I was entirely
willing to work towards some resolution a good decade
ago.

All my attempts at resolution, not that I'd actually done
aught wrong either, were corrupted away.

The sooner this shrinking sector of journalism is re-
structured so that the region's best journalists, those
with integrity rather than 3rd order induction and a
coke habit, are working in it, the better.

However, the BNP get 7/10 for propagation on this
one, but only 3/10 on analysis.

Perhaps there would be a problem, even amongst the
liberal wing, in actively clamouring for representative
reportage?

Or is it just crypto-PR for "yeah, we do read the Voice,
and the Asian Eye..."?

G DAEB

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