BNP Establishes Media Rebuttal Unit to Combat Lies
The British National Party has established a formal Media Rebuttal Unit tasked with fighting back against media lies, fabrications and slander. This campaigns unit will raise public awareness of the diabolical anti-British methods of the lying mass media.
The Media Rebuttal Unit will also be placed in charge of dispatching press releases and in raising media awareness of newsworthy BNP events and campaigns.
Today the Media Rebuttal Unit, led by BNP Projects Coordinator Cllr Paul Golding, has lodged formal complaints against two lying newspapers, The Sun and The Times.
These complaints are as follows:
THE SUN: FORMAL COMPLAINT
The Press Complaints Commission Code of Practice clause 1 reads as follows:
“Accuracy. i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures.”
The Sun newspaper published an article entitled “BNP banquet to raise £250k flops” which claimed “BNP supporters staged a swanky black-tie dinner hoping to raise £250,000 — but it FLOPPED”. This is inaccurate.
The purpose of this event, staged on Saturday 24th October, was to thank the members of the Trafalgar Club for their fundraising efforts during the previous year, not to raise money.
The Sun has twisted the words of National Press Officer Simon Darby, who stated unequivocally that over the next year, the Trafalgar Club hopes to raise £250,000 in total. It was not stated in any way whatsoever by any BNP spokesman that the event was being put on to “raise £250,000.”
We demand that The Sun retract this story and print a correction in the same prominent fashion in which they have printed the article in question.
THE TIMES: FORMAL COMPLAINT
The Press Complaints Commission Code of Practice clause 1 reads as follows:
“Accuracy. i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures.”
The Times newspaper has published an article entitled “BNP supporters call on Nick Griffin to quit as leader”. It also states in the article: “Supporters of the British National Party have turned on Nick Griffin in the wake of their leader’s much-maligned performance on Question Time, and called for him to be replaced.”
This is inaccurate. The so-called ‘BNP supporters’ mentioned by this article are not ‘BNP supporters’ at all.
The article examines an opinion poll hosted on an American website which has nothing whatsoever to do with the BNP, and whose subscribers are for the greatest part overwhelmingly hostile towards the BNP.
Thus The Times cannot claim with any real credibility that the views expressed on an unrelated third-party website are those of ‘BNP supporters’.
We demand that The Times retract this story and print a correction in the same prominent fashion in which they have printed the article in question.
Both complaints have been submitted to the Press Complaints Commission and will be followed through by Cllr Golding.
