Pakistani communities' call to action on #covid19 related educational and health concerns in Rochdale, an #ESRC IAA project led by @DrSophina_Ch, @sidraiftikhar
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![Image Reads: A Call to Action for the Media: ii) For media outlets to moderate their posts: to consider that biased racial reporting on Covid-19 related issues can incite further, or feed, the grievances of racialised/minoritised people in local communities: “There was an article with a restaurant being fined, there was another institution being fined too but they chose to show Manzil Banqueting [a Pakistani restaurant in Manchester] as their main picture [in this article], so I thought that they should have put both on, but one is on and geared towards the Pakistani community, and the other one wasn’t, something very simple like that, just read the title and look at the picture. If you’re going to have a portrayal, have a fair portrayal, don’t just put in the negatives of COVID cases rising and pictures of Asian people walking around, you will always have someone from the BAME community in the pictures, and people are automatically making an assumption, this is a classic example” (](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1v7qpGXIAAzcVt.png?name=orig)
ALT Image Reads: A Call to Action for the Media: ii) For media outlets to moderate their posts: to consider that biased racial reporting on Covid-19 related issues can incite further, or feed, the grievances of racialised/minoritised people in local communities: “There was an article with a restaurant being fined, there was another institution being fined too but they chose to show Manzil Banqueting [a Pakistani restaurant in Manchester] as their main picture [in this article], so I thought that they should have put both on, but one is on and geared towards the Pakistani community, and the other one wasn’t, something very simple like that, just read the title and look at the picture. If you’re going to have a portrayal, have a fair portrayal, don’t just put in the negatives of COVID cases rising and pictures of Asian people walking around, you will always have someone from the BAME community in the pictures, and people are automatically making an assumption, this is a classic example” (
ALT Image Reads: A Call to Action for the Media: iii) Consider the community’s need for media education to access good sources of online support to address distrust in mainstream media: “Mainstream media in my opinion is obsolete. Quite frankly. I have applications. And when I say I am following the media... I watch what is going on for the main narrative, but I won’t follow that. I will watch it for some of the information. Then I need to know where I am looking and where I am not looking. What bits are am I not seeing. What are you saying that they are not saying? If you are speaking about them, I want to see their perspective. Only like that you can have informed judgement about what is going on” (Father of 2 secondary school going children).
