Friday, March 31, 2006

Today Newsround's website included an item about some of the newly published findings of a bullying survey which were given in a paper to the British Psychological Society. The four year survey of 11,000 children found that nearly 15% had received nasty texts or emails.

Belatedly the item mentioned yesterday's newspaper story about the boy bullied by two boys at his school who had set up a hate website, but the item failed to mention the predominantly homophobic nature of the taunts. Once again Newsround and its associated website have deliberately failed to discuss the issue of homophobia, which is one of the most significant causes of bullying.

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