British media and Ireland, part 193

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Financial Times Guardian Daily Star Sun Daily Express Daily Telegraph Daily Mirror TOTAL: THE ruling class press screamed for censorship last Friday. The filming by BBC's Panorama of the IRA liberating the Northern Irish village of Carrickmore produced the predictable howls of outrage. The film was immediately banned, and the editorial columns of the press fell over themselves to demand more and more censorship of news from Ireland.

The same day the press exercised their own bit of censorship. Fleet Street gave little or no coverage to the sectarian killings of two Catholics in Belfast which occurred around the time the Panorama storm broke.

Those that did cover these deaths were'nt too concerned. The Daily Telegraph, for instance, described them as a 'reprisal raid'. For those interested in the standards of the 'free press', the following is a run down of how many inches of copy Fleet Street gave to the Carrickmore incident [in which nobody died] and the Belfast killings [two Catholics dead]:

Inches of copy Carrickmore 24.5 9.5 23.0 45.0 Sectarian killings 0.75 1.75 3.5