This week’s number of the week is ‘shitloads’ because that is the amount of coverage given by most of the British press to the murder of a solicitor in Kensal Green when compared to another killing committed in Ladbroke Grove three weeks before.
Both murders were brutal (one a stabbing and the other a shooting) and the pain experienced by both families of the deceased must be pretty unimaginable. Your heart goes out to them.
As I also live in the area and know that both attacks could well have been me if I was travelling home late at night I’m pretty shocked by it all. It’s quite sobering to know it could have been you...
But compare the coverage given to both incidents and you’ll notice a startling difference. The killing of the lawyer in Kensal Green got huge full-page coverage over several days while the man murdered in Ladbroke Grove got a few paragraphs at best.
Could this be because one victim was white and middle-class and the other possibly wasn’t? Apartheid remains alive and well in the British press.
There are times I am ashamed to be a journalist…
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