Mediawatch has tackled the issue of race hate & the mainstream media again. See the video here.

For those eager to express their prejudices, there are plenty of new forums in the new media.

The major metropolitan papers have embraced the electronic era and they actively encourage their readers to respond to stories online.

Like this one.

Security staff at one of Sydney’s most popular pubs were ordered to refuse entry to patrons of particular ethnic backgrounds in a racist exclusion policy designed to cut crime…denying entry to patrons of Middle Eastern and Pacific Islander origin.

— The Daily Telegraph online, Racist pub bans Arabs, Islanders, 3rd May, 2007

The reader comments published online in response to that story are not ones The Daily Telegraph would publish in the newspaper itself.

I wouldn’t be letting Arabs in the country let alone a pub……..

— The Daily Telegraph online, Racist pub bans Arabs, Islanders, Readers’ comments, 3rd May, 2007

Read the rest on the Mediawatch website.