April 09, 2019 10:44 AM
What's right when writing about the 'Far Right'?
Please define ‘Far Right’
Dear Members of Press & Media Organisations
The Media's coverage of the notion of 'Far Right' would be comical if it was not so deadly serious.
For the past couple of years it would appear that the Mainstream Media and journalists have created an entire sub-industry around screeching or printing the unqualified phrase ‘Far right’. The Media seem obsessed with ‘finding the Far right’; but far less clear about defining what ‘far right’ (ideology) might actually mean; what the ‘checklist’ is, as it were – hence my article here today.
