ABSTRACT
The Commission for Racial Equality's (CRE) information service was involved in publishing and data distribution on a considerable and growing scale. By 1980, the CRE had established itself as, far and away, the dominant, nationwide voice in matters to do with race relations and the fortunes of the ethnic minorities in Britain. Its influence on both media and public would be impossible to overestimate. By there was a clear indication that the CRE's presence in society represented a growth industry. The 1983 Annual Report stresses how active has been the CRE's publicity section. The 1990 Report underlines the CRE's view that there ought to be special and exclusive access to the media for the ethnic minorities. When the CRE issued its guidelines the Metropolitan Police had issued information showing that, in 1992, in 22 percent of racially motivated crimes the victims were white.
