Published
A piece I wrote is currently the front page lead on The-Latest.com. I’m very happy and they’ve asked me to write more about the topic.
Just a wee update on my progress in college. A debate about media in one of our lectures focused on the issue of censorship and media self-censorship.
I’ve felt for a while that the media has been deliberately ignoring the situation in Northern Ireland – until two soldiers and a police officer were killed in March the gradual growth of dissident activity never made it onto the agenda of the national press. I think this was a deliberate downplaying of the situation by the papers – they were going along with the government take on the situation – de-emphasis what was going on to help the political situation progress, don’t give the extremists attention to try and curb their growth.
I talked a little about it in class – and gave my opinion on the self-censorship and its positive efffects. My lecturer, Marc Wadsworth, asked me to write something for his website – a collaborative effort between journalists and non-professional reporters.
You can see the result here.
