Representations of asians in the media

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/how-television-still-suffers-from-stereotyping-509417.html
This article talks about how the asians in the media are breaking the mould of their typical stereotypes of being doctors, accountants and lawyers and how they are breaking into the media and subverting stereotypes, with the asian comedy shows including Goodness Gracious Me and Kumars at no 42.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/06/comment-thatcher-golliwog-bbc-racism

This article is about the Carol thatcher racism remark made on the black french tennis player but it also talks about how asians have been categorized in the same group as other ethnic minorites and how they have been stereotyped when all in a group.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/aug/25/television.channel4

This article is over the recent dispute on the big brother show involving Shilpa and Jade goody and how the show was rested after that to rest the dispute that was on going at the time. Also talks about how channel 4 was heavily affected by the racism on the big brother show therefore causing a vast decline in the profits made.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/19/prince-harry-racism-newspapers

Asians in the media in this article have been seen in a negative but sympathic way, with the prince harry racism incident involving him and one of his 'friends' in the army after he had called him a 'paki' which was looked upon in outrage.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/01/paul-stephenson-police-race-relations

This article is regarding the race relations in the metropolitan police and it is about how the new commisioner of the police force will try and dissuade the black and the asian minority in the police from joining the metropolitan police force.

The article that strikes me the most is the article concerning the break through of the asians in the media and how they have become very popular especially in the comedy genre of the media with the like of goodness gracious me etc.. and it stikes me as the most important because of the way that the asians have been talked about with them being talked about in a positive way and giving them the credit of getting into the media spotlight and making a success of themselves.

One of the executives in the earlier years of asians in comedy was quoted as saying "oh you know, i don't think asians are funny" and this was the attitude of the non ethnic groups towards the asians in the media.

Gupta who was the producer of GGM says that his success put together with the attitude towards his work in the asian area of the media influenced his decision not to undertake the priority of being the producer of Kumars at no 42, because he already knew of the way that non asian executives in the media thought about his work.
Since Stephenson became deputy commissioner of the Met in 2005, the detection rate for racist crime rose from 23.5% to 40% last year. "The commissioner has a publicly commended track record, in terms of the personal importance he has placed on race and equality issues in policing,".

The treatment of the Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty by her fellow housemates Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara elicited 54,000 complaints and led to effigies being burnt on the streets of India. As the row escalated, Gordon Brown was forced to defend Britain as "a country of fairness and tolerance".