That’ll be a fun week
This sounds like a good competition to encourage journalists from ethnic minorities - who are criminally under-represented in newsrooms and all media outlets:
The GG2 Leadership and Diversity Awards recognise achievement within ethnic minority communities with a wide range of awards to be presented on 15 September in London.
Excellent. What's the prize?
A week at the Daily Mail and £500 cash are on offer.
Er, come again?
A week at the Daily Mail and £500 cash are on offer in an annual journalism award aim at ethnic minorities.
Right. Perhaps you can have some fun proofreading Littlejohn's column about how golliwogs are just completely innocent non-racist items*, or having a look through the twisted statistics in a James Slack anti-immigration special, or looking through a million articles portraying Muslims as criminals and savages. You might even be able to have a day at the picturedesk and see exactly how it's possible to accidentally put a picture of peaceful mainstream Muslims on an article about extremists, then leave it on the story. I'm sure you'll learn something about journalism, anyway...
What the fuck's the second prize - two weeks at the Mail?
* By the way, since Iain Dale and Richard Littlejohn, and others on the hard right, said there was nothing racist about golliwogs, guess what I found over at Excalibur, the BNP's shopping site? Yes, that's right, a whole page of golliwogs! Oh well, I'm sure that's entirely coincidental and it just happens that the BNP site is the only place in Britain which sells such a wide range of golliwog merchandise. It's nothing to do with racism at all!
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June 3rd, 2009 - 08:06
Take the money and run would seem like the best way forward there! And as for the BNP, I'm still seething over the fact that they call their shopping site Excalibur, what a bloody nerve!
June 3rd, 2009 - 10:35
First post of your's I've read – I enjoyed it. I'll be back again. BTW whenever I doubt myself and start to think 'Am I being unfairly critical of certain newspapers?' I like to line up all their front pages for a 12 month period in front of me and then the guilt goes away.
June 3rd, 2009 - 11:50
It's an interesting one, this. It shows exactly how whenever the Mail rails against schemes designed to encourage ethnic minorities, it's just spouting the crap its readers want to hear.
Imagine if it was a council or the government running this scheme. How many 'White people banned from government jobs would it be able to squeeze out of it? How many column inches would Littlejohn be able to fart out about it?
It's political correctness gone mad!
June 3rd, 2009 - 19:49
A colleague of mine — a black woman of west African origin — joined the Evening Standard, then the Mail, straight from university (one of the posh ones) and said she absolutely loved it.
I was surprised when she said this, but this is probably because she was a quite junior reporter. She wasn't involved in concocting any of the bile on the newsdesk…