MANCHESTER AND THE SORRY STATE OF BRITISH JOURNALISM

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Arena, ariana grande, attack, boycott, clickbait, clicks, daesh, daily mail, Dan Hett, fake news, fake report, hacking, hillsborough, journalism, Katie Hopkins, leaks, Leveson, Liverpool, manchester, Martyn Hett, mass shooting, mental health, Piers Morgan, propaganda, PTSD, revenue, social media, sun, tabloid, terrorism, UK media, US, voyeurism, westminster.

by Zoe Harding

CW: article contains descriptions of the Manchester terrorist attack, racist discourse, links to images of war crimes.

The official threat level after the terror attack in Manchester is back down from Critical to Serious, and the country has started to move on. The news cycle seems to have been slightly shorter, as well; at time of writing the front page of the BBC News website is largely concerned with technical problems at British Airways and I-kid-you-not a cheese rolling competition.

I’d love to say that this particular terrorist incident didn’t incite the usual wave of hate and disgustingly inappropriate coverage that tends to follow such events, including random hate crimes, thundering headlines and political manoeuvring. I’d love to.

But The Daily Mail exists. And The Sun. And the political climate in the UK has become sufficiently toxic that even without those two, the response was nonetheless as unpleasant as any I’ve seen.Continue Reading

IF KATIE HOPKINS REALLY RULED THE WORLD

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged class, daily mail, dementia, fat-shaming, Katie Hopkins, migrants, TV.

by Robyn Banks

Katie Hopkins’ new show, If Katie Hopkins ruled the world, debuted on TLC this Thursday 6^th August. While a Mail article claimed that the show had trouble garnering any guests, Hopkins herself claimed that people were so desperate to align themselves to her overall image of petty hate and kneejerk reactions she had to turn people away, which doesn’t really explain why the first guests include a washed out daily fail columnist, a reality TV star and a woman so irrelevant she’s been denounced by even the darkest corners of feminism.Continue Reading

LET’S CHECK OUR THIN PRIVILEGE- AGAIN! A RESPONSE TO MATILDA CARTER’S “CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE A LITTLE MORE THOROUGHLY”

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activism, check your privilege, eating disorders, fat-shaming, feminism, Katie Hopkins, thin privilege.

Matilda Carter’s original article here.

by Robyn Sands

It doesn’t take a long look at society to see that ‘fat-shaming’ is a problem. Katie Hopkins recently put on 4 stone for a TV project called ‘To fat and back’, going from 8 to 12 stone (am I the only one who thinks she looks great?) with the express purpose of ‘proving’ to fat people that being fat is their fault for being ‘lazy’. And while her particular brand of in-your-face nastiness might not be representative of the entire country, her attitudes towards size are unfortunately widely held. Despite the average size for women in the UK being 16, shop mannequins and clothes models are nearly always a size 6 to 8, a ‘plus size’ model wears a UK size 12, and moral judgements about body size and shape are rampant in our media. This particularly affects women, who are taught from an early age that we are entitled to a smaller physical space than men.

Katie Hopkins

IF KATIE HOPKINS REALLY RULED THE WORLD

LET’S CHECK OUR THIN PRIVILEGE- AGAIN! A RESPONSE TO MATILDA CARTER’S “CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE A LITTLE MORE THOROUGHLY”

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