Inflammatory media coverage, spearheaded by the broadcaster Alan Jones, has been partially blamed for igniting the tinderbox atmospherics around the monocultural surf scene at Cronulla.
The committee's report indicated that there were several factors involved but that racism was the central cause of the riots and that it was exacerbated by the response of the Los Angeles Police Department as well as by biased and inflammatory media coverage.
As an aside: I was a teenager when, in 1968, Enoch Powell made his "rivers of blood" speech, and recall my first political argument being that, although his exact words might not have been as inflammatory as their coverage, he did have a responsibility for knowing how they would be interpreted.
In 2004 the chapel once again complained to the PCC over the inflammatory and blatantly inaccurate coverage of so-called Gypsies coming to the UK during the enlargement of the EU.
Several samples had high fractions of Escherichia coli sometimes observed in inflammatory bowel diseases; varying coverage profiles for reference E. coli genomes suggest that it is not due to laboratory contamination.
"Based on the constant, inflammatory, and far-reaching media coverage surrounding this matter, a trial within the Central District of California, particularly within Los Angeles County, will violate Mr. Baca's due process rights," a court motion says.
An independent commission, set up to look into the unrest, found that state media coverage was at times inflammatory.
