Evening Standard messes report of BBC race cock-up. And the media accused LABOUR of racism?
The ladies concerned: (from left) Dawn Butler, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Marsha de Cordova. I bet you can tell them apart. What’s wrong with the BBC and the Evening Standard?
What a fiasco.
First the BBC confused Marsha de Cordova with Dawn Butler.
Then the Evening Standard, trying to report the BBC cock-up, used a photo of Bell Riberio-Addy.
The Evening Standard reported on the BBC gaffe of confusing @MarshadeCordova with @DawnButlerBrent by using a photo of @BellRibeiroAddy.
This cannot go on. Black people are not all the same. We need more diversity in our newsrooms. https://t.co/lvstwWg5pT
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) February 4, 2020
Jesus, in an article reporting on the bbc screw up of mistaking two black female MPs, the evening standard has mistaken two black female MPs. You actually can’t make it up. The media is a shambles
— A$AP Choppy (@Chops8592) February 4, 2020
BBC: “Look at the overt racism we can get away with now”
Evening Standard: “hold my pint”
— Ems (@LilMsSocialist) February 4, 2020
These are media organisations that contributed to the accusations against the Labour Party, and its leader – of racism as part of an unrelenting four-year campaign of propaganda that bore little resemblance to the facts.
So why are we surprised?
Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.
Vox Political needs your help!
If you want to support this site
(but don’t want to give your money to advertisers)
you can make a one-off donation here:
Here are four ways to be sure you’re among the first to know what’s going on.
1) Register with us by clicking on ‘Subscribe’ (in the left margin). You can then receive notifications of every new article that is posted here.
2) Follow VP on Twitter @VoxPolitical
3) Like the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/VoxPolitical/
Join the Vox Political Facebook page.
4) You could even make Vox Political your homepage at http://voxpoliticalonline.com
And do share with your family and friends – so they don’t miss out!
If you have appreciated this article, don’t forget to share it using the buttons at the bottom of this page. Politics is about everybody – so let’s try to get everybody involved!
Buy Vox Political books so we can continue
fighting for the facts.
The Livingstone Presumption is now available
in either print or eBook format here:
Health Warning: Government! is now available
in either print or eBook format here:
The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
What’s George Osborne up to these days? Last I heard he was Editor of the Evening Standard….
That’s what he’s up to these days.
Tories and racism. It’s quite an achievement to piss off both the Board of Deputies and the Muslim Council of Britain.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mp-defends-decision-attend-21430056
If labour rid itself of self serving MPs is the greedie ones in the labour party blairites then this pointing out racial abuse at the real labour people’ would dwindle away it’s the Tories who are this