Des Freedman
@lazebnic
Goldsmiths Media & UCU - lives in the Estuary - likes writing manifestoes - founding member @mediareformuk
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15-07-2009 21:10:49
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Why should Zarah Sultana MP even have to waste time with these fools arguing that media & politicians should call these pogroms Islamophobic when there's no such debate about the term antisemitism? When your mosques are being attacked, this is anti-Muslim racism. It's Islamophobia.
This is increasingly common sense to many but just in case you want additional evidence, read these powerful reports from Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/upl… & mcb.org.uk/resources/stat…. #Islamophobia is rampant within the British media
If you think that the concept of “public service” is going to rescue you from market corruption & government interference, think again. Organisations like the Post Office and BBC are far closer to the state than to publics they claim to serve. An article… journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…
Defence reporting is more like PR than journalism and part of a disturbing drive to war at the heart of the military establishment and echoed by the media. My latest for Declassified UK declassifieduk.org/defence-corres…
1,320 migrants have drowned or are missing in the Mediterranean so far this year. Unlike billionaire super yachts, they have not received blanket media coverage despite the horror of the situation facilitated by western border policies Missing Migrants Project