It is difficult for outsiders to appreciate how significant it is that Gary Lineker, a former England footballer, was not permitted to present Match of the Day on BBC television, following comments by him on the British government’s xenophobia towards refugees. To get a handle on this we need to call in aid the late Ulrich Beck’s concept of ‘risk society’. What Beck meant was … [Read more...] about Impartiality and public service media
Robin Wilson
About Robin Wilson
editor-in-chief of Social Europe, adviser to the Council of Europe on intercultural integration and author of The Northern Ireland Experience of Conflict and Agreement: A Model for Export? Ex-chair of Belfast branch NUJ