Censorship At The Andersonstown News?

Lisburn councillor Matthew McDermott has decided to compile a dossier of censorship at the Andersonstown News.

According to Matt: "Over a year ago I decided to refuse an award from Belfast Media Group in protest of the Squinter/Adams stuff and ever since then the paper has censored me from their pages. Literally, cut me out of press releases and cut me out of photos when they printed them (but then published the full photo on their website)."

I haven't seen the report yet, but if this is true, it's a truly Stalinist and childishly hamfisted attempt to get back at Matt for daring to show them up. Given the history of censorship of the provos on TV during the Troubles, you'd think those times had passed now that we're in a more normalised era.

It's one thing having a editorial slant, but quite another to simply pretend that someone doesn't exist. Do the Andersonstown News not want to their readers to get the full story?

As I say, I haven't seen the report, but it'll be interesting to see.