This is an example of where the BBC really has major problems in people trusting anything they say
The new DG might want a word or two
The last line: NY Mayor Mamdani paid €1000 for his own ticket.
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An impartial journalist might contextualise the Belfast knife attack with *evidence*: 282 knife offences every day on average & foreign born nationals under-represented in violent crime. Chris Mason spoke instead of right wing *narratives* of migrants, borders & crime.
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Good on @channel4news.bsky.social: reporting responsibly on both Belfast attack and equality laws with facts & context & without propagating far white narratives.
1/3 The far right propaganda flooding our zone is shifting. Its White grievance Narrative has focused on immigration & small boats but it can only endure only so long as the numbers fall. So the Narrative is being reconstructed, against black & brown Britons instead.
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2/3 Hence we’re seeing more of the assault against “DEI”, antiracist & human rights safeguards that MAGA pioneered in the USA. The Narrative will prompt government acquiescence in the form of costly enquiries. They will no doubt find clumsy wording in documents and examples of bad practice.
Some guidance for mainstream journalists. The image on the left does not show protestors, it shows criminal rioters. The image on the right shows protestors.
3/3 But we know already that racial discrimination is real, that it’s still directed against black people, and that reversing what progress we’ve made against it will not even touch the problems afflicting the poorer white people who are persuaded by the Narrative.
Badenoch says taking Churchill off bank notes is a sign, alongside police anti-racist guidance, of DEI gone mad. The fact it had nothing to do with that; that wildlife got more votes than historical figures, must be forgotten. The grievance narrative must dominate.
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