Pizzey's Perch

Accord­ing to a recent head­line: “Cov­er­age of Ukraine has exposed long­stand­ing racist bias­es in West­ern media”. The thrust of that and sim­i­lar arti­cles was that reporters not­ing the vic­tims were Euro­peans, rather than peo­ple we nor­mal­ly think of as being refugees, were guilty of racism. As a jour­nal­ist who has cov­ered more than a few con­flicts, I beg to differ.… Read the rest