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Originally Posted by Lampman
I can never really understood the media's reluctance to report racial issues.
If there was any other sort of crime going on it would be reported.
Newspaper Editors would never hide the fact that there was a serial mugger on the loose or the like ,but add the racial overtones and stum!
Whatever happened to freedom of the Press?
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It makes one wonder. The local press seem to want to ensure that any story relating to members of the Asian Community is first given approval by 'community leaders'. Quite why, I know not.
Incidentally, why is it that every time the phrase 'community leader' rears it's head, one gets the image of a member of the Asian community. Why not the local head of the Rotarians for example?. Or a senior member of Help the Aged? Why does it have to be be the senior member of some Asian community organsiation?. Surely there ought to be some diversification such that if community leaders are consulted then then the interests of a broad range of the community are represented. If the article is not deemed to be in the public interest, then at least such an outcome would have had a sense of balance rather than serving the interests of one group of society.