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Most documentaries about the grooming scandal are about dishonest reporting

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Justwrong68 · 05/01/2025 12:32

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PerkingFaintly · 05/01/2025 13:37

Those are two documentaries I had to hand, but you may know of more.

(Neither is about Ellie Williams, the woman in Barrow who as you say lied and attracted the far right.)

PerkingFaintly · 05/01/2025 13:33

I'm sorry if you're finding some BBC docs inaccessible, @Imnobody4 .

Does this link work for you:
Three Girls
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08r8pvh/three-girls-series-1-episode-1
(I'm sorry, I can't test this one at the moment)

Groomed, abused and put in prison: Rochdale’s untold story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kv7v
(Have tested and this link works.)

Three Girls - Series 1: Episode 1

Drama based on a true story. New to the area, Holly is keen to make friends but finds herself drawn into a frightening world she is unable to escape.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08r8pvh/three-girls-series-1-episode-1

PerkingFaintly · 05/01/2025 13:28

I don't know about most documentaries, but certainly a significant proportion of threads on MN are about dishonest reporting.

Some of them are really strange.

Eg there's one running at the moment where the OP says "how did I not know from the 2013 trials that girls were tortured?".

Gets lots of replies that the media were deliberately hiding it from us.

However on the first page, someone links three stories in major outlets from 2013 and 2014 covering the trials, most of which use the word "torture". By the end of the first three pages there are links to many more stories, with horrific detail, in major outlets from 2013 and onwards and to the documentary "Three Girls" (2017) and a R4 documentary (2020).

What's very odd is a lot posters are skating straight past those posts, like they're not there.

The posters that do admit the existence of the reporting say, "but nobody told me the girls were tortured. I just thought the girls thought they had older boyfriends who gave them gifts."

Despite the fact there are stories linked which explicit about torture and give examples.

So there's certainly something odd going on.

Imnobody4 · 05/01/2025 13:25

From the twitter feed OP posted. (They make me sick)
It looks like the BBC have only ever aired a handful of documentaries about the scandal. At least two are not accessible, and of the those that are, they are all about a girl who lied and how that attracted the far right. And now Channel 4 has made a series about the same girl.

Imnobody4 · 05/01/2025 12:54

This is so despicable. Has anyone watched it, I couldn't bear to.

www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-commissions-expectation-make-three-part-documentary-series-exploring
Drawing on a rich seam of online archive, and with exclusive access to the men accused and a host of other key players – from internet sleuths to duped charity workers and local Asian restaurant owners – this is a stranger-than-fiction tale of how a shocking lie sparked a devastating wild goose chase, heaping pressure on the police and exposing a dark underbelly of racism in the process. WEB OF LIES: The Barrow Grooming Ring Scandal (w/t) is a multi-perspective and multi-layered story, full of conflicting emotions and morality. In the wake of the Rochdale and Rotherham grooming ring scandals, it offers a unique lens on how gossip and innuendo can be weaponised against Asian men in overwhelmingly white communities.