Can a representative from the BBC and Guardian be called to do a webchat to discuss events in Cologne on NYE?

I complained to the BBC about the limited coverage of all the European sex attacks (they barely mentioned anything outside Cologne), their failure to deliver the full facts (that attackers were migrants), lack of analysis and failure to ask any questions in comparison to other terrorist activities.

They've replied. They basically said that it was the German authorities fault for being so slow to release the story, and that they have in fact given Cologne lots of coverage.

That's it. No mention of any possible investigation and analysis of the whole events, outside Cologne, or of any wider implications, e.g Sweden as European rape capital. They obviously don't believe in investigative journalism any more. Anyone interested in possible BBC bias might want to look at voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/01/13/beastrabban-on-bias-at-the-bbc/

Thank you anyway for trying. Actions and words and all that - free speech? Really? Another one whose decades-long love affair with the Guardian is over.

Though to be fair, we've been drifting apart for a while. Nothing in common, I don't feel respected or listened to and frankly the sex is shite.

Come and join us here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/2547511-Assaults-in-Cologne-and-other-European-cities-part-V?msgid=58658091#58658091

According to the Guardian, the fact that woman are scared to venture out at night now in Germany is a "nuance".

Guardian - if you are reading this thread, wake the fuck up.

The comments to the article are worth reading. The article hasn't just down played the attacks - it has denied most of them even happened

I'm never, ever, buying the Guardian again.
NEVER.

Thanks for trying, MNHQ.

The Guardian gave you a huge V in today's article.

Victoria Derbyshire have turned it around, decent coverage.

Thank you MNHQ.

Pat on the back to Ch4 news and WEP for their discussion.

Thanks Mumsnet.

Can we also ask about the German government policing discussion and comments on the internet - www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35105003 - surely UK media would frown on this as the eroding of free speech and a worrying development.

Thank you Katemumsnet. That is a glimmer of good news.

Glad to be of service n'all that.

All we have to do is wait...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/2546240-Mass-sexual-assaults-in-Cologne-and-other-European-cities-part-IV?msgid=58615220#58615220

Thanks

That's really good Lumela.

summoned to mumsnet?

I bet they'll be queuing up for that gig

Here it is. Feel free to send it on. Sorry it took me a while - I was out part of the evening.
We are concerned that there have been press cover-ups about mass assaults on women carried out large groups of men, groups which seem to consist almost entirely of migrants. The BBC (less so R4, but certainly the website and Women's Hour) and the Guardian in particular seem to have dodged this issue, and when they began to tackle it they minimised its impact and significance. This is troubling because it looks as if women's rights - including the rights of migrant women who apparently, we understand, suffer a high level of violence in refugee hostels - are being ignored by exactly the middle-of-the-road left-wing press where we would normally expect to find our supporters. This is a difficult and painful discussion, given the terrible suffering from which many migrants are fleeing, but we feel that if it not debated openly it will only empower extreme political groups, who will seek to dominate the debate for their own ends. Sexual violence already exists in western society, but these attacks take it to a new level.'

I've done summat.
My spinning-skills are not far above zero.
If someone else wants to have a go, please do!

if anyone would like to summarise the complaint

That will be key. There is a very slim chance of them coming on at all, but the right complaint could, in their eyes, present an opportunity to win over a large number of readers. If it's phrased too much like an attack, their PR department will veto it out of fear that it'll spiral.

Anyone with politician-style spinning skills?