Why the media are to blame for racialising Melbourne's 'African gang' problem
- Written by John Budarick, Lecturer in Media, University of Adelaide
Just before Channel 7 aired a Sunday Night special devoted to Melbourne’s “African gangs” problem earlier this month, the race discrimination commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, went on Twitter to criticise a promotion spot as “fear-mongering and racial hysteria”.
The same could be said of a string of stories in the...
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