An open letter on the reporting of #Ukraine: Do not let people of colour be a casualty of war - by @marcusryder mediadiversified.org/2022/02/28/an-…
Dear newsroom editors and journalists reporting on the current war in Ukraine,
First may I thank you all for doing an incredibly important job under incredibly difficult conditions.
First may I thank you all for doing an incredibly important job under incredibly difficult conditions.
I am sure you are all aware of the old adage; “The first casualty of war is truth”, first attributed to US Senator Hiram Warren Johnson in 1918. In 2022 it is important that diversity, and our principles of anti-racism, aren’t the second casualty.
We must separate the relative importance and global strategic significance of a war in Europe, compared to other conflicts, from the relative importance of the victims of different conflicts around the world.
I fully understand why a war involving a Superpower (Russia) on European soil may be deemed (rightly or wrongly) as more significant than other conflicts.
Evaluating the importance of different wars and conflicts are by definition the difficult editorial decisions editors and journalists need to make almost every day.
https://twitter.com/AlJazeera/status/1497986094289367044?t=LV07GzNYn2zm93Upv8VPmw&s=19
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