50,000 protest austerity outside BBC; BBC ignores

[ellenrr]

More than 50,000 anti-austerity protesters in London marched outside the BBC and Parliament Square today but the BBC refuses to cover them.
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Comedian Russell Brand addressed the crowd: "Austerity means keeping all the money among people who have loads of it. This is the biggest problem we face today--all other problems radiate from this toxic swindle. We can organise a fairer, more just society than they can. These demonstrations are the start."

Brand said the group will hold the biggest protest in British history later this year, "Soon we will reach a size and influence where neither the BBC nor this austerity Government will be able to ignore us."

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[raccoon]

1. Recd. Must've borrowed a page from American MSM. nt

[ReRe]

2. BBC =

Bullshit By Conservatives.

[snot]

12. I posted years ago about the change in control of the BBC --

but aroused no significant interest in this development.

After Tony Blair got mad at the BBC for going after the deception involved in bringing the UK and the US into Iraq, they changed the rules so that Trustees to the BBC Board would be selected by the Prime Minister, and to make it easier to outsource BBC reporting/programming (i.e., to cronies).

Previously, it was ONLY on the BBC that I'd heard that there WAS an alternative explanation for the infamous "aluminum tubes." Now that programming has been replaced by talk about sports and celebrities.

Have you noticed, the countries in which little or no mass media reach most of the population, seem to be the ones in which the people are rising up against unjust governments?

[ReRe]

13. Yeah...

... I guess Egypt's "Constitution" doesn't mention "Freedom of Speech or of the Press." Yeah, I noticed. The natives are rising up all over the world. Watch London one of these days. They are upset about Austerity measures and are vowing to get a couple million people in the streets. But here at home?

[Joe Shlabotnik]

14. Canada's CBC is going that way too.

The rot is setting in, after 9 years of appointments by Conservatives. The top positions have been filled with either mouthpieces, or those hell bent on taking the institution down from the inside.

Having a public broadcaster is great, until its co-opted by the same people that own the rest of the MSM.

[sabrina 1]

17. Yes, I remember that. And we still don't know what really happened behind the scenes. Just that one

Whistle Blower ended up dead.

[merrily]

3. It took our media, which was covering three person Tea Party "events" about two weeks to acknowledge

that Occupy had begun. Meanwhile, they were hyping every two hour Tea Party event at which "two or three" were gathered, both before and after the event began.

And our media at least pretends to be independent-when they remember to, anyway.

[Stellar]

4. I loved this one...reminds me of home.

[daleanime]

6. +1

[truebrit71]

10. That is exactly what has happened...

.... amazing

[Laelth]

5. Hear, hear! k&r n/t

-Laelth

[NewJeffCT]

7. Next week, half that number of right wingers will show up

angry about something, of course, and it will get round-the-clock coverage.

[nxylas]

8. They already did, with round the clock UKIP coverage

Comedian David Schneider tweeted that if the protesters wanted coverage for their march, they should have named it Nigel Farage.

Incidentally, the current head of BBC News is a former Murdoch lackey. Which I'm sure has absolutely nothing to do with this disparity.

[LuvNewcastle]

9. I think people around the globe need to be in the streets

showing our governments who's really in charge. We in America need to stand for a guaranteed minimum income and free education at state universities. They should wipe out student loan debts. Our bloated defense budget needs to be slashed. They could take the military budgets of several other countries who have the next largest budgets, combine them, and our military budget would still be larger than that. We don't need to be in Iraq at all. They can close down that fucking embassy if they have to.

[ellenrr]

15. People around the world ARE in the streets.

Almost every day there are protests (some huge, some not) in Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal. Even England. I see them on Euronews.

And in South and Central America.

it's what keeps me from despair. because for sure there is no mass movement here, (US) altho there are many people - in small numbers around the country - doing good things - like fighting debt, fighting foreclosure, Moral Monday in North Carolina.

But the numbers are not such as to create a mass movement.
of course in Europe these are not mass movements, but they do get out for ex 60,000 people in the streets.
And not just young people - older people, middle-aged people, employed, unemployed, even sometimes cops. It's really wonderful.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

11. There was a very large demo in Spain the same day also.

Dignity Marches In Spain Surround Parliaments
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Collective Marches with integrated platforms today under the banner of ‘Dignity’ have surrounded the headquarters of several regional parliaments to protest against cuts in public services, inequality and poverty that lead many citizens to despair.

Following the success of the marches that converged on Madrid on 22nd of March, the organizers have now explained that by surrounding regional parliaments they wanted to express that “the people are sovereign” and “remain vigilant” to the decisions taken in its name.

Marches were held this morning in Seville, Vitoria, Santiago de Compostela, Zaragoza, Valladolid and Toledo.

http://revolution-news.com/dignity-marches-spain-surround-parliaments/

[Matariki]

16. Hmm. Time to move the protest *inside* the building(?)