JOE ROGALY, Financial Times columnist, informed his readers last weer nat une coverare or race issues by Fleet Street is an aspect or my trade of which i cannot tee anything except shame.
he was Commchue old Dall phlet by the home affairs corresDOnaCHE Times, Evans, who has surveyed press's vicious reporting of the incidents which led up to the racist murders last summer with much the same sentiment as Rogaly's.
"The journalist', Evans observes, "has a responsibility to create understanding. The journalist cannot escape part of the responsibility for justice and racial peace.
and be damned?*, and the reviews or the Damone waich nave ao peared in the Financial Times and the Guardian, is not so much their liberal concern over the excesses of their colleagues as their tear of the campaign that LOW mounted against the mass media's HYSTERICAL Evans examines Fleet Street's scandalous coverage of the Malawi Asians at tne o-3-week hotel'; the "floods of immigrants" expected from East Africa; and Powell's amazing revelations about the Hawley report on would-be immigrants.
The pamphlet records the hysterical headlines, backed by racist stones and caroons. gether played a major part in Dullame me upsuree in racism tha! is now a lethal component of the capitalist crisis in Britain.
But Evans's explanation of the contribution made by his colleagues is utterly facile. Powell, he considers, is a deft manipulator of the press, and once the racist bandwagon began to roll, competition among the gutter press and the pressures of a journalst s work built up tne nysteria That, of course, explains nothing. ur all te aajectives unal can be applied to those who manage ana work or me mass "gullibility' is one that can be reliably excluded.
MISSING As for the bandwagon' theory, one only has to try to imagine Fleet Street being reverisniy away in a campaign to abolish the immigranon laws, SaVA Social Contract, to reject out of Peter tne being anotner race wat warning by Enoct Powell leaks secret Foreign Office report that caused split in the Government Maggie DAY OF THE SLOT FOR