Media remains silent on anti-lockdown protests – and not for the first time
Chants of 'shame on you' must have been kept out by shut BBC office windows yesterday as thousands protested against lockdowns in London and elsewhere... There hasn't been a peep on the marches from the news team since!
Cartoon by Crid.
Thousands upon thousands of anti-lockdown protesters gathered outside the BBC headquarters yesterday and chanted ‘shame on you’ over the corporation’s coverage of Covid. The noise must have been kept out by shut office windows, however (though there’s got to be a Covid regulation against that!), since there hasn’t been a peep on this march – or the many others which took place across the rest of the country yesterday – from the news team since.
I appreciate that ‘escaped cattle spotted grazing in gardens’ and ‘a lost whale – 6,000 miles from home’ are two very important stories, deserving of a mention on the BBC News homepage under the banner ‘Must see’... But surely the gathering of thousands of people (100,000 in London alone, according to some) against the Government’s continued obsession with lockdowns – many many weeks after the ‘three week’ pledge – deserves at least a slither of attention. After all, the pro-Palestine protests have had their fair share of coverage.
BBC News homepage, May 15, c. 4.30pm.
At least when anti-lockdown protests were last omitted from the BBC’s ‘news’ bulletin, its ‘disinformation reporter’ was on hand to say the marchers were ‘heavily in to fringe beliefs and online conspiracies’. An acknowledgment of sorts – but we didn’t even get that this time around!
And it’s not just the BBC that’s at fault, either. The Daily Mail, Reuters (which, in fairness, did both cover the anti-vaccine passport protests in April) and other outlets have remained silent too. The most I have been able to find is one sentence on the Guardian’s ‘Coronavirus live’ page (probably one of the least-viewed pages on the site) pointing to a tweet from one of its reporters.
‘Several hundred’ people, according to this bright spark. Give me strength.
This article can also be read on The Conservative Woman here.
