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6 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
In his acclaimed book "Flat Earth News", Nick Davies published a shocking account of the scale of institutional racism at the Daily Mail: books.google.co.uk/books?id=U2E79…
Davies noted: "I have never come across a reporter from the Daily Mail who did not have some similar story, of black people being excluded from the paper because of their colour"
books.google.co.uk/books?id=U2E79…
In 2016, the Daily Mail was called out for "fuelling prejudice" in a report on rising racist violence & hate crime: independent.co.uk/news/media/pre…
In 2018, the UK's Society of Editors picked Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre for its first ever "Lifetime Achievement" award: societyofeditors.org/soe_news/paul-…
The message this kind of award sends is that the Society of Editors believes that the working practices of Dacre's Daily Mail were not just acceptable but *exemplary* - a model for others to follow: societyofeditors.org/soe_news/paul-…

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