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Since we have nothing betterr to do on a hot summer day, let’s pick on migrants.
A news story on the 8:30 pm YLE news today was a new low on reporting about migrants. Even worse, YLE framed migration to Finland as a Third World issue even if Muslims and people from developing countries account for only 10% of all migrants in Finland.
Migrant Tales published in 2015 a series on poor and sloppy journalism by the Finnish media. You will find scores of sloppy stories that frame migrants negatively.
One of our recent stories was on how the media, in collaboration with the police and politicians, created a social problem.
Even if the number of migrants has fallen sharply from recent years, German Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobiandt said he wants his country to be the leader in kicking out migrants to detention camps outside the EU.
Without explaining why stiffening hardline migration policy is a news story, the YLE story leaves out an essential question: Why are the interior ministers of Germany, France, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, and Poland meeting to tighten migration policy?
The answer is simple: All of the countries have hostile far-right parties that capitalize on anti-immmmigration sentiment.
In a show of opportunistic cowardice, Minister Doiandt admitted that one of the reasons why Germany wants tougher migration laws is its political rival, AdF, the second largest party in the country.
A scene from YLE news showing how it frames migration as only a Muslim issue, even if such people account for a faction of all migrants in Finland.
One of the spreaders of Finland’s racism problem is the media. Migrants and minorities follow very little the media due to the lack of trust. Somali Finn Asma Abdi wrote: “Although I am a ‘Finn’ on paper, the media constantly reminds me that I am not wanted here. If I didn’t feel like I were under constant attack [by the media], I could then read the papers.”
Apart from the drastic fall in migrants to the EU, the YLE story does not touch upon the dire consequences of our aging population. It’s pretty incredible: We are pushing away people when we need them.
No logic, only politics at play.