MEDIA LIES: More Garbage from the Daily Star and the Sun!
The media lie machine is still in massive overdrive due to the enormous public backlash against the bullying of BNP Chairman Nick Griffin on Question Time last week. Today the BNP’s Media Rebuttal Unit has lodged two formal complaints with the Press Complaints Commission over articles in the Daily Star and The Sun:
DAILY STAR 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.”
In an article entitled “BNP MEMBERS TURN ON ‘STUPID’ LEADER”, the Daily Star has claimed that “The knives were out for BNP leader Nick Griffin”. THIS IS INACCURATE.
The so-called ‘BNP members’ mentioned in this article are non-BNP extremists who have posted on the Stormfront website, which is nothing to do with the British National Party. This whole article is grossly inaccurate. In fact, Stormfront has always been very hostile to the BNP.
To pass hostile third-party extremists off as ‘BNP members’ is misleading the public. We demand that the Daily Star retract this story and print a correction in the same prominent fashion in which they have printed the article in question.
THE SUN 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 has printed an article entitled “BNP squaddie in Nazi salute”. This story is an expose of Craig Orwin, a soldier in the British Army. This article is grossly misleading and inaccurate because Craig Orwin is NOT a BNP member and NEVER has been.
Furthermore, staff at The Sun newspaper did NOT contact the BNP in any way whatsoever to check the veracity of their claims, which indicates that they went ahead and published this fictitious story in order to besmirch the reputation of the British National Party without checking their facts first, as is good practise in journalism.
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.
Cllr Paul Golding
BNP Media Rebuttal Unit
