Post by HStorm on Jan 17, 2008 21:14:20 GMT
Two men alleged to be members of the terrorist group, the Scottish National Liberation Army, have been put on trial in Manchester for a campaign of attempts to poison people by mailing them tampered bottles of drink.
The bottles were sent to Darwen councillor John Wright and Scottish Daily Express journalist Myra Philp in April last year.
I wouldn't bother mentioning this issue, except to point out that there has been almost no interest in the case in the national media, and only a very moderate interest even in the local media here in the north-west of England. (It goes without saying that there appears to have been precious little attention in the Scottish media - I can find not a single mention of it on the BBC Scotland, Daily Record or Glasgow Herald websites - because it never likes casting native Anglophobes in a bad light. But that's beside the point.)
Can anyone suggest to me what the media response might have been if exactly the same kind of plot had been linked to visibly-Arab Moslems instead of white-skinned Scottish Nationalists?
The bottles were sent to Darwen councillor John Wright and Scottish Daily Express journalist Myra Philp in April last year.
I wouldn't bother mentioning this issue, except to point out that there has been almost no interest in the case in the national media, and only a very moderate interest even in the local media here in the north-west of England. (It goes without saying that there appears to have been precious little attention in the Scottish media - I can find not a single mention of it on the BBC Scotland, Daily Record or Glasgow Herald websites - because it never likes casting native Anglophobes in a bad light. But that's beside the point.)
Can anyone suggest to me what the media response might have been if exactly the same kind of plot had been linked to visibly-Arab Moslems instead of white-skinned Scottish Nationalists?