Media HateWatch UK

Diversity Online has started a new initiative following the abusive campaigns against asylum seekers in the national media.

Media HateWatch UK is a part of Diversity Online that will put scare stories about asylum seekers Online as they happen as part of a rapid response programme.

Every day the nationals are scanned and hate items about asylum seekers identified.

At the moments we are concentrating on the tabloids because that is where some of the worst examples are occurring.

We put on line the headline, intro and any parts which are particularly abusive. We also analyse the story and synopsize the remainder of it. The best way of seeing what we do is to go to the website: http://www.diversity-online.org and click on Latest for the last six stories. The full list can be found by registering: it is free but you have to wait a day or so for us to send you a username and password.

We would welcome details of scare and hate stories from the national media, because at the moment we do not see everything. However, we are only interested in current examples from that days media.

We also welcome suggestions for improving the service. At the moment we are sticking to asylum seekers for this service, but as other ethnic minority stories become abusive we might expand our coverage.

We want the site to become a repository for hate stories so people who want evidence to track how coverage has developed will have a useful resource.

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