[Media-watch] Watch Ceefax and teletext, too!

[Sigi D]

Dear Media Watch friends,
the following has bugged me ever since it appeared on
BBC ceefax.
I complained by phone (Tel 08700100222 BBC
information).
I don't know how many complaints about this ceefax
page the BBC received.
They never tell you - or do they?
Anyway - I have just across the handwritten note I
made of the text (once again).
I think it's shocking because it exposes a very
specific frame of mind.
I don't really know what to do with it.
So here it is (sorry about typos and I probably didn't
get all the " "quotation marks).

BBC Ceefax the 8th of May, 2003
The headline in the news index read:
"Asylum tide 'risking social unrest'" 
ceefax page 104:
"MPs condemn failings in Asylum system
increasing numbers of asylum seekers could trigger
social unrest and boost support for extremist parties,
a Commons 
committee has warned.
The Home Affairs committee said the Government set
'unrealistic' 
targets for removing failed asylum seekers.
But is said the deportation system had improved in
recent months.
Home Office minister Beverly Hughes said the
government 'has been acting 
on warning bells' since race riots in 2001"

{Image of tide and flood, no figures or statistics
whatsoever.
Had to think of the 'river of blood speech'.
The race riots from 2001: that were disillusioned
second and third generation poor Asian youth?
Who is responsible for writing the Ceefax pages?}

On the same day  Teletext ITV read as follows:
8th May 2003 at 11.45 hours
page number 303 
MPs warn over asylum numbers
"Spiralling numbers of asylum seekers could overwhelm
Britian and trigger social unrest MPs warned.
A home affairs select committee study said the asylum
issue may already have led to a "political backlash"
as voters turn to extremist parties.
But Home Office Minister Beverley Hughes said the
Government is making "substantial progress" with tough
new legislation and tighter boarder control."

Best wishes
Sigi
 


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