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24 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Hard to see how the UK newspaper industry can win back the British public's trust while it continues to promote divisive narratives about trans people
UK journalism is one of Britain's most socially-exclusive professions - and this lack of representation is often reflected in the way that the UK media covers issues relating to excluded & marginalised groups
Alongside transphobia, there are serious concerns about the scale of systemic racism within the UK media pressgazette.co.uk/culture-of-fea…
Things have been so bad that the United Nations has spoken out, condemning "decades of sustained and unrestrained anti-foreigner abuse, misinformation and distortion" in the UK press ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/…
Britain needs a media that tells the truth, & reports accurately and fairly - but polls have consistently found that the UK press is the least trusted in Europe: pressgazette.co.uk/survey-finds-t…

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