Recently, the Barton Moss mainstream media blackout has led many to question what the hell is going on in outlets that are supposed to be telling people the news. Last November saw the first Salford protest against the mainstream media, with a demo outside the BBC headquarters at MediaCityUK under the banner that `If the news won't come to the demo, the demo will come to the news'…
At that protest, held in the wake of the media hardly reporting the massive march against the Tory Party conference a few months previous, the BBC took the full brunt of people's anger (see previous Salford Star article – click here).
"They've got News 24 which could run any number of stories yet they repeat the same stories all day and all night" said one speaker "That's not a news channel it's a repeats station…"
Meanwhile, Darren Nesbit, who has since become the in-house singing legend at Barton Moss, created a special song with the verse…
"I don't know but it seems to me
Ain't no truth at the BBC
I don't know how it feels to you
I'm sick of being taken for a fool
1-2-3-4 Freedom's what we're fighting for
5-6-7-8 We want peace and we won't wait
I don't know but it seems to me
Ain't going to pay my licence fee
I don't know how it feels to you
The mainstream media ain't got a clue..."
Next Saturday sees the Return To The Media City, with a statement on the group's Facebook site reading…
"The BBC (among many others) have failed once again to report what is happening in this country and others. The BBC consistently fails to contextualise the `News'. Public opinion is massaged by manipulation; and outrage and fear are force fed to the public.
"We are not given news, we are given celebrity led `feel good stories as a distraction, given facts and figures that just don't add up" it adds "We see the lies. We see the propaganda."
Last November's protest was part of a national day of action on which people picketed BBC buildings around the country, and the British TV Licensing website was taken down. As a kind of point-prover, none of the mainstream media reported any of the actions.
March Against Mainstream Media 2
Saturday 19th April noon
MediaCityUK
For more details see the March Against Mainstream Media 2 Facebook event page – click here
Or follow on Twitter with the hash tag #MAMSM2
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