Category: In the News

• Channel 4 Gets Fact-Checked: Those in the know respond to Dispatches: The Truth about Traveller Crime

  

  Channel 4’s Dispatches: The Truth About Traveller Crime’ (broadcast 16th April, 2020) reminds us of the distortive power of popular media, particularly when representing mobile communities. Not only did the programme fail to adhere to core journalistic standards, it was directed by someone who had previously made public her prejudices against Gypsies/Roma/Travellers and by all accounts deliberately misled those…

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  July 9, 2020

  Identity, In the News, Social Issues

  Channel 4, GRT, Media, Research, Travellers

• In the News: Recent coverage of Showpeople’s Yards in Glasgow

  The proposed relocation of families from the two Govan show yards at Water Row has attracted considerable press attention this year. For easy reference, we have brought together all the major press coverage of the situation in Govan and wider issues faced by Showman’s Yards in Glasgow, listed in order of publication. The views expressed…

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  August 2, 2018

  In the News, Media Coverage, Showman’s Sites, Social Issues