I've just bought the domain name 'www.thisisracism.com', where I intend to post info about media racism in general, and the Evening Sub-Standard in particular. What particularly concerns me is the way that they've been running headline after headline of essentially negative (and often extremely surreal) statements about asylum seekers over the last couple of years now. My particular favourite was along the lines of 'Asylum seekers disguise themselves as London schoolkids' or something equally odd...

When you DO read the story behind the headline, you often find that it's barely more than an unfounded allegation, or worse, virtually nothing to do with the 'shock' statement they've plastered all over London.

My beef is that they post these statements up week after week on the newsstands you see all over London, and the majority of people who see them probably won't read the 'story' the headline supposedly summarises; they'll just come away with yet another negative thought about asylum seekers.

This, to me, amounts to a campaign, and a dangerous one at that. Simple facts are that when the tabloids get moralistic about asylum, racist violence increases. Media racism kills. I've got a couple of ideas about how I'm going to use this domain, but I'd welcome comments.