The NUJ in the newsEXPOSE, a new campaign of media workers and students – journalists, technicians, designers, musicians and actors – has been launched to expose the British National Party as the racists, homophobes, anti-Semites, women-haters and fascists that they are.
Launch meeting
Tuesday 23 Feb, 7pm
Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre
17-25 New Inn Yard
Shoreditch, EC2A 3EA
The BBC’s outrageous decision to announce its intention to invite the BNP onto Question Time has understandably caused outrage on the left.
Unite Against Fascism was quick to condemn the move and has launched a campaign, which it is hoping will gain traction among the unions, calling on BBC management to reverse their decision.
Strathclyde Police’s investigation of BBC Scotland for incitement to racial hatred over a phone-in show should give editors a wake-up call about how they handle coverage of the BNP.
The case, reported by the Socialist Unity blog, clearly has more editorial than criminal implications as it is unlikely that anyone will be prosecuted.