Northern Echo blocks BNP advert
From: BNP Website
Yesterday the BNP successfully got its message across to the tens of thousands of readers of the Darlington based Northern Echo which covers most of the Sedgefield constituency.
A £600 advert was placed in the paper in the run up to tomorrow’s parliamentary by-election.
Instead of accepting the advert as part of that newspaper’s obligation to inform the electorate fairly about all the candidates contesting the by-election the editor, Peter Barron, felt compelled to write a hand wringing apology to the paper’s readers offering self-congratulatory praise that “The Northern Echo has a proud tradition of campaigning for freedom of opinion” and suggesting that to refuse the BNP advert would be tantamount to descending “…into the sinister darkness of censorship”.
4 Comments:
The piece suggests the paper ran the advert AND an advertorial supporting it. So did they block it. Or not?
They ran one on Wednesday with a cowardly disclaimer.
They had nothing yesterday (Wed the 18th).
Not sure about today.
So, basically they didn't block it. The headline on the post is wrong.
The link below will give the full story.
The first advert was printed
http://by_elections.blogspot.com/2007/07/sedgefield-bnp-newspaper-advert.html
but a second one for the next day was not.
http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=1619
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