Considering how mainstream journalists like to criticise bloggers for irresponsible journalism, Daily Mirror columnist Brian Reade has quite a cheek to joke about publicly revealing the details of right-wing political activists.
On the Daily Mirror website, he's written under a picture of British National Party politician Nick Griffin Reade (in an apparently sarcastic tone):
"I'm worried about the 12,000 BNP members whose names and addresses have been leaked on the Internet.
I pray their details don't fall into the hands of any of those black radical groups known to take a very dim view of white neo-Nazis.
It would be truly awful if anything nasty happened to these nice people wouldn't it?"
Most blog hosting sites like blogger close down extremist political sites which advocate violence or publish personal details of political opponents (which probably breaches privacy laws as well).
If mainstream newspapers columnists publicly condone this sort of action they should be sacked. At the very least, Reade deserves a warning from his employer for violating the standards of responsible journalism.
As a writer for a national paper he should be mature enough to acknowledge that most political activists, on both the right and left are decent, law abiding people and deserve to have their personal safety protected.
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... he's written under a picture of British National Party politician Nick Griffin Reade (in an ...
Hey! Don't tell me Nick and Brian got married!
I'm glad you pointed this out. I'm totally irony-impaired, especially when it comes to Britons. His mocking the BNP shouldn't be too surprising given that he works for The Daily Hoaxor.
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