'Unimportant' - Van Dijk (1991)

• Van Dijk (1991) found that minority ethnic groups are represented as 'Unimportant'
• Minority ethnic groups are represented as 'Unimportant' as issues affecting white people are provided first in news reports (often by reporting crimes of black people first instead of white people)
• Sir Ian Blair (a former Metropolitan Police Commissioner) spoke of 'Institutional Racism' among the British Media in the pattern of reporting murders (black people will be represented first instead of white people)
• Ligali (2006) noted that newspapers devote less attention to the murders of people from minority ethnic backgrounds compared to the murders of the majority ethnic population