Well done to ENAR who challenged and ultimately won out and a very racist anti-roma article that was published in the independant. Challenging racism in the media takes time and focus but an independant network of anti-racist organisations won out on the day. Mr OCurry complained that the article, entitled “Begging – but I thought it was freedom of expression?” was in breach of Principle 8 of the Code because it advocated the expulsion of all unemployed Roma people from Ireland, because it stated that Roma beggars formed “a parasitic, ethnic underclass who look on this country as a giant stupid cow to be milked whenever they see fit,” and it asserted that many locals had “found themselves surrounded by beggars – all of whom were Roma - and then had their belongings filched.”
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:30:32 +0000
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