Thanks BK.
I agree with Sir Ian's views. And commend him for challenging the
Press with it.
But that is on the face of it. I am unfamiliar with the context
or the origins of the conflict/s between the Metro Police and the
Press to judge things.
However I still don't understand your displeasures with my
tearing into the 'objectivity' of the Times' editorial on the Hamas
election. Obviously you don't agree with some or all of my comments
and criticisms. Would you care to point them out, if not rebut
them?
And I still would like to see an explanation of how you perceived
of my 'personal attacks' on you. But I would understand if you don't
pursue it any further and I won't press it either :-).
Regards,
c
At 1:36 AM -0500 1/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Chandan
I promised to show a piece of objective reporting. And here it is.
It comes from the Editor of the 'Letters to the Editor column' in the Daily Telegraph of 27th January. Sometimes, at least in certain newspapers, the editor of such columns does append his or her own response to a single or all the letters. On this bundle there is no such appendage. In other words, my example of objectivity has no words. It is only presentation.
Recently Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner of London, the most senior police chief in the land, accused the media of institutional racism. Following bitter criticism from various quarters, he apologised to the parents of the murdered children. Otherwise he stood by his remarks about the way race, age, and gender played a part in the media's crime reporting.
A total of eight letters appeared in the Daily Telegraph's letters' column (www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/01/28/dt28/dt2801.xml 30/01/2006.) 7 letters were critical of Sir Ian while one letter cited a case of a 27-year old Somali, a poor black prostitute, whose dead body was picked up from the Regent's Canal. A man was convicted of her murder.
National newspapers and broadcasters did not cover this news.
He ends his letter thus: On strictly commercial criteria, that's rational enough. But it inevitably sends the message that some lives are worth more than others.
Even if Ismail had been white, I doubt she would have received much more attention. The fact that she was a prostitute, an immigrant and struggling at the bottom of society was already enough to ensure that her sad death would be ignored.
I call this objective reporting, rather presentation.
Bhuban
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