Press Complaints Commission
j | 16.03.2005 12:24 | Social Struggles | World
Please write to the Press Complaints Commission to highlight The Sun's breach of their code, in their war on gypsies.
Clause 12 (Discrimination) of the Code of Conduct for the press states that:
i) The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual’s race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability.
ii) Details of an individual’s race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental illness or disability must be avoided unless genuinely relevant to the story.”
Clause 1 (Accuracy) states:
i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted material including pictures.
iv) The Press, whilst free to be partisan, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact.
I think it is interesting to take excerpts from The Sun’s recent coverage, and to replace the word ‘gypsy’ with other ethnic or social groups. Accordingly, it reads:
STAMP ON THE CAMPS - SUN CAMPAIGN TO STOP JEWISH INVASION
Across the land, decent people live in fear of gangs of Jews and blacks who fight, steal, break the law with impunity and make life misery for others. Len Gridley, who has 1,000 Pakistanis on his doorstep, branded them 'animals'. Sign up today to halt the black man scandal.
When dealing with Jews and blacks the cops put human rights laws before all other regulations. One reader told us he's had his van broken into four times, stealing tools worth hundreds of pounds. It just so happens a Jewish ghetto had been set up not far away.
Every mum with a baby in a pushchair who treads in a pile of excrement; every housewife whose washing is polluted by the acrid smoke of burning tyres; every home burgled, every lawnmower stolen; every local pub terrorised - remember, it's an invasion of black men. Tell us your black man stories. This is a Sun war on the Pakistani free-for-all.
But what does one MP tell us? That we should stop out 'irresponsible' campaign because it's scaring the Asians and Jews! What planet is he on?
Thankfully the hilarious Sun gave John Prescott a taste of his own medicine yesterday by setting up a Jewish ghetto outside two of his homes.
YOU CAN PROTEST AGAINST THE SUN'S CAMPAIGN BY EMAILING THE PCC via their website at www.pcc.org.uk or by writing to
complaints@pcc.org.uk
i) The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual’s race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability.
ii) Details of an individual’s race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental illness or disability must be avoided unless genuinely relevant to the story.”
Clause 1 (Accuracy) states:
i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted material including pictures.
iv) The Press, whilst free to be partisan, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact.
I think it is interesting to take excerpts from The Sun’s recent coverage, and to replace the word ‘gypsy’ with other ethnic or social groups. Accordingly, it reads:
STAMP ON THE CAMPS - SUN CAMPAIGN TO STOP JEWISH INVASION
Across the land, decent people live in fear of gangs of Jews and blacks who fight, steal, break the law with impunity and make life misery for others. Len Gridley, who has 1,000 Pakistanis on his doorstep, branded them 'animals'. Sign up today to halt the black man scandal.
When dealing with Jews and blacks the cops put human rights laws before all other regulations. One reader told us he's had his van broken into four times, stealing tools worth hundreds of pounds. It just so happens a Jewish ghetto had been set up not far away.
Every mum with a baby in a pushchair who treads in a pile of excrement; every housewife whose washing is polluted by the acrid smoke of burning tyres; every home burgled, every lawnmower stolen; every local pub terrorised - remember, it's an invasion of black men. Tell us your black man stories. This is a Sun war on the Pakistani free-for-all.
But what does one MP tell us? That we should stop out 'irresponsible' campaign because it's scaring the Asians and Jews! What planet is he on?
Thankfully the hilarious Sun gave John Prescott a taste of his own medicine yesterday by setting up a Jewish ghetto outside two of his homes.
YOU CAN PROTEST AGAINST THE SUN'S CAMPAIGN BY EMAILING THE PCC via their website at www.pcc.org.uk or by writing to
complaints@pcc.org.uk
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