The British mass media and the Roma

Keywords: All Europe, English, roma, ethnicity & race, media ethics & diversity, report, print

Was there ever a ‘tide’ or a ‘deluge’/’flood’ of gypsies attempting an ‘invasion’ of Britain, as UK newspapers The Guardian, Daily Mail, and Daily Telegraph (respectively) have claimed in the past? Here, Valeriu Nicolae, deputy director of the Brussels-based European Roma Information Office, shares his lecture notes on what he calls the dehumanization of anti-gypsyism, in which he compares the headlines, the facts, the falsehoods — and the consequences.

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