Imagine if the BBC created a page entitled The Struggle Against Aids. Imagine if then they included copious stories about linkages between Aids and homosexuality. Imagine if then they took an opportunity to frame a story about rising Aids cases alongside one about indecent and criminal homosexual behaviour, and alongside someone influential’s unmediated and copiously quoted opinion that Aids was linked to homosexual bad behavour. Well, that’s just imagination, isn’t it?
But in the case of Iraq this morning we had this, this and this. Deaths. Abuse. Calls for the US to leave Iraq. Where’s the link between them? What warrants them being interwoven as a headline block? Nothing in particular, unless you’re prejudiced. Stinking biased. An information fascist. That kind of thing.
Weekend 16th November 2024
He was flamboyantly gay and had numerous black boyfriends (or, in his own colourful words, “I’ve su***d more black c*ck…