Channel 4 Dispatches on Immigration Oct 1st 2007
Paula Sharratt | 01.10.2007 20:32 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Other Press | London
Jon Snow's presentation of Dispatches expressed the real difficulty that we now have with a media that relies on 'research' that is partial and concentrates on the symptoms of problems rather than their real underlying cause. Plea for documentaries not shockumentaries...
Tonight on Channel four between 8pm and 9pm we were honoured with what purported to be a real stand on the ACTUAL contribution that the 'immigrant' brings to this country....
Another simplistic assault on decent people struggling to survive.. a story told by Big Brother?
A documentary that does not take the time to explain how the dismantling of the welfare state, the effective running of hospitals, council and social housing expectation has very little to do with immigrants but more to do with a rationale that sees the poor and the vulnerable as mere fodder for exploitation, criminalisation and sensationalisation.
If there is any 'fear' of speaking out at all it is the establishment's fear of the repercussions of the terrible crime of neglect of All people who live and work in unacceptably dislocated environments that have not been adequately serviced for GENERATIONS...
Shame on you Jon Snow, for participating in yet another manipulation of Indian, Pakistani, Somali, African Caribbean and white english people for what became a most appalling broadcast on behalf of the British National Party and the Genghis Khan wing of the conservative party.
Another simplistic assault on decent people struggling to survive.. a story told by Big Brother?
A documentary that does not take the time to explain how the dismantling of the welfare state, the effective running of hospitals, council and social housing expectation has very little to do with immigrants but more to do with a rationale that sees the poor and the vulnerable as mere fodder for exploitation, criminalisation and sensationalisation.
If there is any 'fear' of speaking out at all it is the establishment's fear of the repercussions of the terrible crime of neglect of All people who live and work in unacceptably dislocated environments that have not been adequately serviced for GENERATIONS...
Shame on you Jon Snow, for participating in yet another manipulation of Indian, Pakistani, Somali, African Caribbean and white english people for what became a most appalling broadcast on behalf of the British National Party and the Genghis Khan wing of the conservative party.
Paula Sharratt
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poly.sharratt@btinternet.com
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