{"id":15165,"date":"2017-10-26T22:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T21:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=15165"},"modified":"2017-10-26T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T21:00:40","slug":"the-daily-telegraph-faces-backlash-over-misleading-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/the-daily-telegraph-faces-backlash-over-misleading-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Telegraph faces backlash over misleading story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 25<sup>th<\/sup> of October, The Telegraph published a misinformed front page article.<\/p>\n<p>The article had originally stated that a Cambridge University student had forced white authors to be dropped as a way to \u201cdecolonise\u201d the English Literature course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>&#8220;The proposals were in fact recommendations.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15167\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/10\/Tel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0The Daily Telegraph front page<\/h6>\n<p>The story headline read &#8220;Student forces Cambridge to drop black authors&#8221;, along with a large picture of Lola Olufemi.<\/p>\n<p>As a rection to the way the situation was represented, journalist,\u00a0Samira Ahmed, posted a tweet expressing her feelings:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Something v concerning about way Telegraph put only this young woman&#39;s pic &amp; not more complex story on front page. As if to incite trolling <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iVdSykYod2\">pic.twitter.com\/iVdSykYod2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Samira Ahmed (@SamiraAhmedUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamiraAhmedUK\/status\/923107071284928513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today, 26th of October, the paper published a brief apology saying: \u201cAn Oct 25 article incorrectly stated that under proposals by academic staff in response to an open letter from student on &#8216;decolonising&#8217; its English Faculty, Cambridge University will be forced to replace white authors with black writers. The proposals were in fact recommendations. Neither they nor the open letter called for the University to replace white authors with black ones and there are no plans to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge University Student Union\u2019s Women\u2019s officer, Olufemi tweeted a picture of the apology and said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Small victories, hopefully I can get on with my job now. Tune in to women&#39;s hour at 10! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lOnIZz7RBT\">pic.twitter.com\/lOnIZz7RBT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; lola olufemi (@lolaolufemi_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lolaolufemi_\/status\/923470391686909952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is what a London Television Production student, Maria, thought about the situation:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZGkQr_J5Mxg&#038;feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words: Brenda Zini| Subbed: Ainaa Mashrique<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 25th of October, The Telegraph published a misinformed front page article. The article had originally stated that a Cambridge University student had forced white authors to be dropped as a way to \u201cdecolonise\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uknews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}