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UK: Public order broadcasting: ‘The Met’ and the press

19 July 2015

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This programme shows how far the gains of the landmark 1999 Macpherson report have been rolled back. The media now considers racism something to be consigned to Britain’s past; it has been ‘dealt with’.[7] As community anger continues – in case after case – the media, faced with interpreting this dissent, proves incapable of scrutinising the actions that cause it. Left with effect without cause, it has turned to the same institutions that generate anger to fill the gap in the narrative."

See the full text: Public order broadcasting: ‘The Met’ and the press (IRR News Service, link)

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