Gypsy groups report The Sun (Murdoch tabloid) to the police (racism)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

Gypsy groups report the Sun to the police

Patrick Barkham
Thursday March 10, 2005
The Guardian

Gypsy groups reported the Sun to the police and the Press Complaints Commission yesterday, claiming that its new campaign against Traveller camps was an incitement to racial hatred.

Their leaders made formal complaints to the Hampshire and Sussex police, and communities spoke of the fear and intimidation caused by the tabloid declaring "war on gipsy free-for-all", under the headline "Stamp on the camps".

A woman living on a site in Kent was so worried by the Sun's attitude that she contacted the police yesterday and asked for their protection. Other Gypsies said their children were frightened when they read headlines apparently declaring "war" on them.

The Sun's campaign, which has had wide support from readers, warned of a "gipsy invasion". It responds to the government's instruction to local authorities to take account of resident Traveller populations when they draw up their housing plans, and identify land which Travellers can buy and develop.

More at:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1434086,00.html

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. Here is the race-baiting nastiness in question:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. Race-baiting from The Express (another RW paper)

[Jamastiene]

3. Interesting

Note the rise in nazism in both Europe and America, note the rise in anti "gypsy" views concurrently. Yep, it's fascism.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

4. I agree, the far-right is on the march. They're creeping

into the "mainstream" media.

[aneerkoinos]

5. Creeping?

Murdoch is truly a fascist, and his "media" is not mainstream but simply fascist propaganda.

Murdoch invasions have been limited to propaganda potentially pro-fascism Anglo-Sax audience (Australia, UK, US), but so far he has been unable to invade the continental Europe.

So in response to the earlier post, this is not about Europe but the good old Anglo-Saxian empire of "Oceania".

With that said, racism towards Roma has been huge problem everywhere in Europe for hundreds of years.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

6. There's a British form of wit

It's called "understatement". :)

[T_i_B]

7. Pikey-bashing tends to be a local phenomenon

The story that the Sun and Express have been pushing relates to Brentwood Borough Council. Now I work down in Brentwood, and pass the nearby "roman triangle" every day on the way to work and usually the issue tends to be a very localized issue, but the RW tabloids seem to have decided to do pikey-bashing on a national basis.

What can I say? Hate sells. It's the same papers who also go in for immigrant bashing in a big way too. Make of that what you will.