When the Independent newspaper was born, it trumpeted the fact that it was independent and would tell the truth. Telling fibs is no good whether they are for malicious reasons or for supposedly good ones. And I'm not talking about little white lies.
The BNP has caught the Independent out. The newspaper, by publishing a picture of some depraved knucklehead from the Nationalist Alliance (a Hitler fan club of sorts!), have taken spin and deception on board. Now I use this blog to campaign against spin and deception. What a stupid man Nigel Morris, deputy political editor of the Independent, must be if he thought he could get away with this unnoticed. Of course the BNP is eagle-eyed for such stuff. They complained to the Press Complaints Commission. Whereupon Morris just cropped the offending picture! It is obvious he was trying to insinuate that the man in the picture was a BNP member.
It's this type of schoolboy scripting that does the debate no good whatsoever. Singled-handedly he's just given them more political ammunition to use on the doorsteps. If he is the Deputy Political Editor, let him engage in some well-thought out political opinion. Good heavens, there's enough to put to the BNP for some proper answers. But, please, let's not have childish capers like this!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
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