The Daily Mail Has Disgracefully Victim-Blamed Jo Cox With An Awful Headline
Conservative shout-rag, The Daily Mail has ratcheted up its repugnance with an article that tacitly victim-blames Jo Cox for her murder ant the hands of a right-wing extremist.
The Mail insinuated that Thomas Mair may have murdered Jo Cox out of fear that he could lose his house to an immigrant family, and that the MP wouldn't help him. This line of logic links the actions of Mair, a radicalised white supremacist to immigrants and Cox herself; a line of reasoning you wouldn't see in the Mail had Mair been an immigrant himself.
The language of the piece is careful to evoke a hypothetical tone but none-the-less is severely unethical and dangerous journalism.
How could any credible journalist, with even an ounce of decency, pitch this angle on the assassination of a progressive MP by a neo-Nazi? pic.twitter.com/UevfMuxTK7
— Chris Glendinning (@cglendinning95) November 24, 2016
Mail. Total scum. Dacre. Evil. Stop reading hate https://t.co/hxVZoeoOwe
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) November 24, 2016
On June 16th Cox was fatally shot and stabbed outside a library in West Yorkshire. According to eyewitnesses, she was shot three times and stabbed by a local man named Thomas Mair, who shouted "This is for Britain. Britain will always come first", a slogan connected to the far-right Britain First Party.
This is just the latest instance of the Mail's shameful reporting, which servers as a corner-stone of their business model that thrives on outrage and bigotry.