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Straight up racism here https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/07/peterborough-byelection-result-labour-sees-off-brexit-party-threat-to-hold-seat …pic.twitter.com/5Cmij4kB2b
It's so infuriating and telling that the Guardian is too spineless to call it racist and instead has to use a quote from Labour as if that was an opinion amongst others...
There’s much less libel/defamation law wiggle room in news reports than comment pieces hence having to quote someone else attacking the comments. Knowing Rajeev, he’s not spineless on racism.
Thanks, that's useful to know and I was certainly not attacking the journalist himself. I wonder whether there could really be a libel/defamation case here though.
My editors have never taken something out but very often the lawyers have and no matter how much you argue there’s v little there for a libel case, if there’s a slight possibility they won’t let you risk it because it’s their job to prevent court cases.
And me stating something is racist is at my own risk, ditto Labour’s press team I’d guess, but if someone does mount a case, even if it’s not successful, the first question at any newspaper will be “why didn’t the lawyers catch this?”
That makes sense and it reminds me of some ethics procedures in HE which can be more about protecting institutions than the researchers and their subject of research.
Think that’s precisely similar: frustrating hoops to leap through to avoid all risks. More protections for opinion, as news is (ludicrously) seen as stated fact, but I’ve had a whole comment piece spiked once by lawyers.
It also means a proliferation of quotation marks used to show direct quotation that readers then mistake for scare quotes
Yes, and this is hugely problematic with regard to racism in particular
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