Monday 18 May 2009

BNP ads: Why an editor said no

Last year the Croydon Advertiser's editor Ian Carter turned down ads from the BNP. He explained to readers why on his blog here.
Among his reasons were: "The BNP are a legitimate political party and will no doubt argue they should have the same right as the others. But we've turned them away on the basis I'd feel deeply uncomfortable with any of their material appearing in our publications."
Story via a post to this site
Last year Archant ran into a storm of protest when it took BNP ads for some of its London newspapers, including the Ham & High. It later decided to donate the revenue to charity.

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