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Originally Posted by Graham
Today's Portsmouth News had the headline "STITCH UP" in very large letters.
A lot of people from Lee on the Solent were *VERY* annoyed with Dispatches, saying that they gave much too much coverage to a few people with racist/ bigotted viewpoints and left most of the more moderate comments on the cutting room floor.
Unfortunately (having had the opportunity to take them to task on C4's Right to Reply programme a few years back) Dispatches seems to be aimed at producing "sensationalist" programmes, rather than actually a balanced viewpoint of the issues  |
Oh yes the Portsmouth News.I don't particularly have a high opinion of that paper either.Not since they published a frontpage article sometime back around '84 about a peadophile ring being uncovered in the city.In this article they managed somehow to make fellow friends and teaching collegues appear to be part of the ring,when in actual fact they had been one of the ways that the ring was smashed in the first place,by having to view 'videos' belonging to the ring(to recognise children at risk).These teachers then had to help in the aftercare of the abused children of the ring.The paper did print a retraction which as usual was inside the paper,not on the front like the original story.
But I digress.Yes Dispatches did go too far overboard but they did I hope make everyone possibly rethink their attitudes.Some of these people are friends and neighbours who when I did try to point out that they could be viewed as being racist just dismissed my opinions at the time.Some were not so polite although none were quite as vigerous as shown in the programme.
It's funny how over the years I've had such discussions with many people whom I respect and yet everyone of them has always begun such discussions with the phrase I'm not racist but........
Anyway it's over and done with now and the whole idea came to nothing,which I thought was likely to happen anyway as Deadalus would have had too much spent on it to make it a worthwhile endeavour.Cost was always going to be the underlying factor in any choice.
Incog.
