OpenDemocracy - a left-wing, online magazine funded in large part by George Soros's Open Society Foundations - has called for the coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict to be "Anti-racist," while appearing to insist that coverage of white war casualties is a racist "Dog whistle."
On March 2nd, OpenDemocracy published an opinion editorial entitled "Racist War Reporting Undermines Trust in Media," authored by Marcus Ryder, an alumnus of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Chinese state-run media outlet China Global Television Network.
The editor of the book "Black British Lives Matter," Ryder has also served as Chairman of the Royal Television Society's Diversity Committee.
In recent days, I have been worried that some of the media coverage of the Ukraine war is actively undermining that trust in established media organisations, especially among people of colour and certain marginalised sections of the audience.
Until we have a more representative media that can change the culture of how stories are framed and reported, I believe newsrooms will continue to make these mistakes.
Ryder also calls out comparisons of "Civilian Ukrainian victims [] to British victims of the Second World War" as racist, as "Similar comparisons have not been made to civilian victims of bombings in other parts of the world."
In addition to calling for the media landscape to become more "Diverse," Ryder also insists that "Journalists should adhere to principles of equality and anti-racism."
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/03/soros-mag-calls-ukraine-casualty-coverage-racist/
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