Making sense of the refinery strikes…

February 3rd, 2009

…is kind of difficult. I don’t know anyone involved and don’t know people who know people who are involved. The media is painting it as purely “anti foreign worker” but 200 Poles joined a walkout in Plymouth.
And then the BBC pulls this nakedly propagandistic stunt. Watch this 30-second video if you think that its reporting is fair and impartial.

“Quotes from News At Ten and Newsnight (half an hour later), Feb 2 2009. The striker’s quote is edited in the News At Ten segment to make it appear as if he does not want to work alongside foreigners – to justify an editorial claim that the strike is xenophobic. In the fuller Newsnight report, it is clear that he is saying that he _cannot_ work alongside them, because they are segregated.”

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