An accusation often levelled at the South Wales Evening Post by rabid anti-fascist campaigners is that they print inflammatory stories designed to stoke up anti-Islamic feeling and then follow up with reports about rising racial tensions in the city.
Our verdict regarding this particular charge is one of “not proven” – but you have to ask what purpose the people behind Wales’ largest selling newspaper thought they were serving by printing this front page headline for it’s main edition.
The intent of provoking predictable outrage with news of how a terraced house in the Hafod area of Swansea is being “illegally” used as a place of worship may be about boosting circulation. Yet have the marketing experts ever asked themselves how many of the tattooed slap-heads and armchair bigots who comment on the website actually go out and buy a copy?
Having said that, we quite liked the contribution by one reader who commented
Can you imagine the scene? Peter is just about to break bread when one of the congregation shouts out, “Hold on, if the authorities find out that we don’t have planning permission to use this cave for worship they’ll crucify us”.
Two thousand years on and not much changes.
Two thousand years on and not much changes.
So true.
2 Comments:
So many BNP stories have appeared in that rag without the slightest hint of criticism or reproach you seriously have to wonder if there is someone with BNP sympathies high-up on the editorial staff.
Before the recent election there was a constant drip of almost pro BNP articles on virtually a weekly basis.
Anonymous,
When exactly were these pro BNP articles printed???
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