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Originally Posted by Hugh
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It's just one case that I could remember without having to a general search. I only became aware of the case after the outcome of the trial was reported on
local news. So how many people are fully aware of these cases? How much media attention did they get?
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The BBC Editorial Standards Committee in 2007 found that "there was no evidence to suggest that the BBC had shown a specific and systemic bias in favour of cases where the victim had been black or Asian", but accepted it had "underplayed its coverage of the Ross Parker case" and repeated the failings in its coverage of the murder of Kriss Donald.
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In 2006, a Sunday Times investigation by Brendan Montague examined British newspaper archives for coverage of racist crimes, finding "an almost total boycott of stories involving the white victims of attacks" whereas "cases involving black and minority ethnic victims are widely reported"
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Reporting is so unbalanced, that people are not allowed to get the true picture.