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So apparently The Sun have published an article questioning why Channel 4 used Fatima Manji to report on the Nice attacks, while wearing a hijab and being all Muslimy. 😯

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What was that we were saying about the media driving a rise in casual racism and xenophobia?

http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/uk_578c8ad6e4b0f4bc59476481


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 7:26 pm
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It is relevant.
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no, wait, I mean repellent.

I always get those two mixed up.


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 7:38 pm
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Write to IPSO


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 7:45 pm
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Coming over here, taking Krishnan Guru-Murthys job, I don't believe it!

Unfortunately, we get the papers we deserve. I'm pretty sure they would object if she had her tits out too...

It says here that the Unions will never learn
It says here that the economy is on the upturn
And it says here we should be proud
That we are free
And our free press reflects our democracy

Those braying voices on the right of the House
Are echoed down the Street of Shame
Where politics mix with bingo and tits
In a strictly money and numbers game

Where they offer you a feature
On stockings and suspenders
Next to a call for stiffer penalties for sex offenders

It says here that this year's prince is born
It says here do you ever wish
That you were better informed
And it says here that we can only stop the rot
With a large dose of Law and Order
And a touch of the short sharp shock

If this does not reflect your view you should understand
That those who own the papers also own this land
And they'd rather you believe
In Coronation Street capers
In the war of circulation, it sells newspapers
Could it be an infringement
Of the freedom of the press
To print pictures of women in states of undress

When you wake up to the fact
That your paper is Tory
Just remember, there are two sides to every story

By Billy Bragg, bloody ages ago..........


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 7:47 pm
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Someone will be along shortly to defend the sun. Possibly. 😐


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 7:52 pm
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Not even the most rabid right wingers on here could defend that rag...... Well maybe ninfan


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 7:56 pm
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Write to IPSO

That's a bit involved. Don't you have a petition I can click on? 😉

Seriously though, they've already had a sound drubbing on social media and a public telling off from Baroness Warsi, I suspect that's more effective than any toothless IPSO reprimand, delivered months after the fact.


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 7:58 pm
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No Piggie, jamba's always up for a bit of casual Islamophobia. In fact, he cares so little, and obviously feels that McKenzie is so much his kind of guy, that he contributed a mere throwaway comment like "Write to Ipso" to the thread.


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 8:01 pm
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Add it to the long, long list of shit things the scum, sorry, sun has done.


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 8:09 pm
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Rubs chin

I'm not saying that McKenzie has a beef with Channel 4 News.

Starts to wonder where I have seen comments like this before.
[url= https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1459893/why-did-channel-4-have-a-presenter-in-a-hijab-to-front-coverage-of-muslim-terror-in-nice/?CMP=spklr-_-Editorial-_-TWITTER-_-TheSunNewspaper-_-20160718-_-Opinion/Columnists-_-519046507 ]

Would C4 have used a Hindu to report on the carnage at the Golden Temple of Amritsar...of course not
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I'm not saying that this is the language of a xenophobe or indeed anyone from here. I'm not saying that it's the language that any leave voter would use either. That would be wrong.


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 9:01 pm
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"I can take the killing, I can take the slaughter
But I don't talk to Sun reporters"


 
Posted : 18/07/2016 9:45 pm