Age of Emergency by Erik Linstrum;

Author:Erik Linstrum;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Published: 2023-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Apologists for colonial violence, in turn, exploited distaste for partisan squabbling to deflect scrutiny.

For critics of colonial war, the journalistic hesitance to take sides created a quandary. They recognized that allegations carried the most weight when “serious and responsible” outlets reported them, as Anti-Slavery Society activist Thomas Fox-Pitt observed in 1956. But because the most influential media institutions were also the most cautious, news of wrongdoing usually ended up in the pages of “sensational and emotional” publications “with a strong party bias.”139 Colonial violence was thus marked as a cause rather than a story. The papers that covered it most consistently, like the Daily Worker and Peace News, were those that had the least credibility with the public or the establishment.

Whether politically aligned or ostensibly neutral, British news organizations presented a mixed and uncertain picture of what was happening in the colonies. Reports of atrocity appeared regularly but in ways that diminished their urgency: framed as allegation rather than fact, counterbalanced with steadfast denials, contradicted by other stories, played down by opinion writers, and buried on inside pages. In an age when sights and sounds traveled rapidly across time and space, colonial violence was no secret. But neither was it treated as a moral emergency.

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