“Vote NO on 6 May 2010 campaign”.
Evidence being submitted to the Press Complaints Commission in support of the complaint against the 'East London Advertiser’. The following is the full text of thee-mail sent to Malcolm Starbrook, the ‘Editor of the East London Advertiser’ on Tuesday 09 February 2010. The texts are self-evident. Other items of compelling evidence will be published here. The context of the complaint against the ‘East Lon don Advertiser’ to the Press Complaints Commission is the persistent failure on the part of the title to report accurately, fairly and truthfully about the East End of London. As the current Council is now the subject of a constitutional review – which is what the referendum to be held on 6 May 2010 is – the importance of truthful accurate and unbiased reporting could not be stressed too highly. So the email Muhammad haque sent to the Editor was intended to remind the ‘East LONDON Advertiser’ of the paper’s duty to provide a truthful fair and accurate news service to the people in whose name the ‘East London Advertiser’ was doing business. The paper could have published the accurate report and it could also have apologised to the supporters of the NO VOTE whose campaign is an undeniable and immeasurable service to the people of the East End of London. Instead, the East London Advertiser failed to publish the facts and is still failing.
Our complaint to the Press Complaints Commission [PCC] is the first formal action against the behaviour of the ‘East London Advertiser’ which has been claiming that unlike the ‘East End Life’ published in-house by Tower Hamlets Council, it, the ‘ East London Advertiser’ is ‘independent’ both as an outfit as well as a ‘newspaper’ and that it is serving the community in the East End by telling the truth! The BHANGEELAAR! Campaign is about to publish compelling evidence to seriously question that claim.
[To be continued]
MUHAMMAD HAQUE 10:40 09FEb2010 commenting on ELA online report on DEMONSTRATION against an executive mayor in Tower Hamlets Saturday 06 Feb 2001
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To: malcolm.starbrook@archant.co.uk
Cc: ela.editorial@archant.co.uk
I have just seen [at appx 10.10 Hrs Tuesday 09 February 2010] your online report on the future constitution of Tower Hamlets Borough Council. Your headline is inaccurate and misleading. It says, “Battle begins to decide if Tower Hamlets gets elected mayor”.
That makes your slant firmly based in favour of those seeking to do away with the current Council constitution.
It also fails to give equal or any recognition to the campaign against an executive mayor being ‘elected’ to be in control of our ‘local’ Council.
You promote a number of named individuals by calling them “Front-line Labour sparks” and by then detailing some of their claims in favour of doing away with the Council in effect.
You do not recognize any of us who demonstrated in the Hanbury Street and you do not refer to a single one of our statements, comments our demands as we made them in that demonstration. You list three speakers from the other side and the only ‘NO’ campaign supporter is described as a Government […..]
It is clear on the texts of your item that you have not only abolished the local Council but that you have also abolished the local population as worthy of inclusion in the texts of your report online!
Brilliant example of compliance with the codes of journalistic conduct, as preached buy the National Union of Journalists and others.
Even more brilliant display of how truthful you are as compared with the Council’s in-house propaganda sheet ‘East End Life’, the title against which you have mounted a year long [or longer!] campaign of your own!
What can the local people expect from the ‘local’ paper the “East London Advertiser’!
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