Europe’s media often ignores, or reports negatively, issues faced by minority groups and indigenous people, such as Crimean Tatars and Roma, according to human rights groups.
The claim is backed by recent research into ethnic minority reporting in Poland and Slovakia. Researchers found that Polish and Slovak media rarely publish stories about Roma populations in those countries.
Teun van Dijk, a media academic specialising in discourse analysis, has described press coverage of minorities as ‘new(s) racism’.
