Media silent on Easter terror displays

Is it too much to ask for impartiality from local media outlets over the subject of flags and emblems? It certainly seems so when we compare and contrast the level of media reportage focused on the flying of flags commemorating the Battle of the Somme and the Glorious Revolution in East and South Belfast last June/July with total silence from local press, radio and TV in recent days following the erection of pro-terrorist emblems ahead of the Easter Rising commemoration parades on Easter Sunday along a stretch of the Falls Road covering the Royal Victoria Hospital and entrance to it.

Northern Irish media outlets such as the Irish News, Belfast Telegraph, BBCNI and UTV did not waste time in jumping on board the politically generated furore over wholly legal and culturally relevant flags last summer, including the flying of our national standard, the Union Flag. Where is that urgency to "report the facts" now?,

The Royal Victoria Hospital is used by all sections of the community. The Unionist community should not feel threatened and intimidated by INLA and IRA signs along with an emblem of an automatic rifle. Sane and rational minds would see this as a newsworthy story and in the interests of fair and balanced reporting. This blatant sectarian intimidation clearly does not apply to a local, increasingly agenda led media which only show interest if the story paints unionist communities in a bad light.