tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623721153002721356.post3944959601279401353..comments2024-03-28T17:49:01.125+00:00Comments on Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness: Stop funding these terror ragsOwen Polleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567787385096905811noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623721153002721356.post-42749684561841179572008-05-28T19:12:00.000+01:002008-05-28T19:12:00.000+01:00It is not incumbent on the government however, to ...<EM>It is not incumbent on the government however, to publicly fund the dissemination of these disgraceful views.</EM><BR/><BR/>You'd be very surprised at what kind of stuff HMG funds indirectly through agencies like the British Council, so I think it would be very hard to fight a case on the ground that publications receiving funding from British taxpayers shouldn't sanctify those who murdered British taxpayers. <BR/><BR/>That's the price we pay for living in a liberal democracy which, 99.99% of the time,refuses to censor(be it with threat of libel or sending the boys round with the baseball bats)alternative views.<BR/><BR/>However....being a liberal democracy which still has pretty stringent anti-discrimination laws, such as, off the top of my head the Fair Employment Act, there is always potentially more than one way to skin a cat. <BR/><BR/>There was an interesting exchange on Marty's blog "A Publishers' Blog" a couple of months back. Basically he was complaining about a Canadian light industry company employing too many Hun in East Belfast. Somebody in the comments pointed out that Marty's very own concern, "Belfast Media", of which the Angrytown News is a part, may also struggle on that front, although in the opposite direction, if you know what I mean.<BR/><BR/>Now, a private employer whose company lacks erm...<EM>cultural diversity</EM> is pretty safe, unless he is stupid enough to be too blatant in his sectarianism/racism...but an employer who is basically subsidised by HMG needs to prove much higher standards- Belfast as a whole has an almost 50-50 religious breakdown which you would be reflected, more or less, in a media group what delivers a product to all of Belfast. <BR/><BR/>The Belfast Media Group falls somewhat short on that score...O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531858236570346203noreply@blogger.com