We need diverse newsrooms, and ones that report ethically on race
With more than half of opinion pieces discussing race negatively portraying racial minorities, it’s more important than ever to highlight the need for diverse newsrooms, explains Settlement Services International’s Violet Roumeliotis.
There is a pressing need for greater diversity in our media and newsrooms. A report released this week shows more than half of opinion articles on the topic of race in Australia contain a negative portrayal of racial minorities.
The report from the University of Technology Sydney and All Together Now shows three newspapers were responsible for 91% of these articles and 96% were authored by people from European or Anglo-Celtic backgrounds. This is simply not good enough in 2019, when one in three Australians is born overseas.
I would settle for a newsroom that reports ‘ethically’. full stop
Newsrooms know they are not reporting factually or ethically and no one wants to call them out on it
Agree with this one Violet.
The level of abject racism on the front cover of every NewsCorp paper is astounding – if you believed the Daily Tele we really have an African Gang issue here – clearly sensationalized bullshit!
You have never been to [edited under Mumbrella’s comment policy] after sunset.
Stop living in your Inner West, Eastern Suburbs bubble.
I probably havent been to whatever redacted suburb you listed and, yes, I may live in a safe bubble.
But does this change the fact that NewsCorp run highly racist articles in a bid to generate views / circ among its troglodyte readership?
Nope!
Mass importing people, to demographically displace & replace the majority stock of a nation is an act that deeply contravenes the human rights of the receiving population. It is racist in the extreme.
Funnily enough no news team reports this, and this article isn’t a call for ethical reporting on the human rights travesty which it is, rather a call for further ramping of propaganda and ‘diverse’ representation to see the program continues unresisted.
The author of the article, and most news teams would not even begin to know where ethics begins.