Media blackout on marches happening today

[orangesnapples]

Is it me or is it not very strange that 1000s of people currently marching though our major cities today and no media coverage?

They are marching for our children's rights, to awareness to trafficking etc

Does the lack of coverage just play into the hands of those that accuse the media of being part of the problem.

They are currently peacefully marching to bring awareness because there sadly is hardly any awareness of trafficking, most people have the completely strep typical idea of what trafficking is, that is all some world wide elite club.
But the sad truth it looks very different, and is probably happening in a home near you right now.

So why no coverage. My SM is flooded with 1000s I f people walking the streets of Liverpool, London etc.

I don't want to believe there is darkness in control of our media and what we see etc but honestly I can't think for the life of me why this isn't being covered.

KrisAkabusi - true - we do have an Irish border. I stand corrected.

The same happened with the miners' strikes during Thatcher's Reign of Terror.

My friends in the south had little idea that protests were even taking place, never mind the level of violence meted out to marchers.

I wonder if Tommy Robinson has any empathy for asylum seekers now - seeing as how he has had to leave this country because of threats against him so he's gone to Spain?

I used to work in Westminster and there are protests going on most days with more people than that. YABU to expect national media coverage for that. Maybe an article in the local paper if it is somewhere that doesn't usually get protesters.

Trafficking has been happening for centuries in some form or another. No conspiracy about this. Various law enforcement agencies and more work globally round the clock investigating and taking legal action. We only hear about the big stuff in the news this is true.

Because of the nature of these investigations, those involved of course don't want to be on tv to discuss this because tech allows their faces and voices to be unscrambled. Many of those behind trafficking are into organised crime on a bigger level and trade more than people.

Society also plays a big role by doing nothing. If people won't pick up the phone to help their neighbour when they can hear/see abuse then what chance do those who are trafficked stand?

When people are trafficked they aren't all done so for the intent of then being raped or to commit crimes, but to work in fields, as cleaners, building crews etc.

There are a. number of ways to report the various trafficking and exploitation happening around us, and more info

www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/

www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/modern-slavery-and-human-trafficking

www.modernslaveryhelpline.org/

www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/child-sexual-abuse-and-exploitation

www.myh.org.uk/

www.who.int/docs/default-source/documents/ethics/sexual-exploitation-and-abuse-pamphlet-en.pdf?sfvrsn=409b4d89_2

www.glowbalact.com/en/humantrafficking/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8Lig-ZSv6wIVwbHtCh0n_QqpEAAYAiAAEgIp8PD_BwE

www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/child-trafficking-myths-vs-facts (not to be confused with save our children)

@Antifa123

The one in Nottingham has very quickly become very fascist looking which is possibly why the mainstream media isn't giving the bottom feeders any attention

What's 'very fascist looking'? Are they hiding their faces like a bunch of stinking cowards?

What are they actually doing to protect children in danger?

OP, I'm not sure whether you are being disingenuous or are just naive but this is Mumsnet, not 4Chan.

Away with your conspiraloony nonsense.

@HasaDigaEebowai

That is Nottingham and its a far right pro facist demo. Nothing to do with helping children in any way.

What's a pro facist? Is it someone who doesn't hide their face?

I’m really glad to see how swiftly the OP was debunked and handed their ass about this QAnon conspiracy theory bullshit. Well done MN.

I have a nagging feeling that all of this ties in with far right wing pizzagate nonsense. They also have a chip on their shoulder about what they call the ‘main stream media’ for not reporting on these ridiculing conspiracies.

I agree. Pizzagate has been long debunked, it is being raised now because there is an election about to happen and these kind of conspiracies are the only hope the right wingers have of smearing the dems to try to win.

Anything that starts with “main stream media are refusing to report” should generally be treated with scepticism. It is the equivalent to all those “Facebook don’t want you to see this, share before they take it down”

Probably because it's born from the weirdos who believe any conspiracy going

Pizza gate

Wayfair

Etc.

@BoreOfWhabylon

OP, I'm not sure whether you are being disingenuous or are just naive but this is Mumsnet, not 4Chan.

Away with your conspiraloony nonsense.

You're in charge are you? You get to tell people what they can or can't post? Away with you and your wretched pompous smugness.

@Hingeandbracket

The BBC seems to have an aversion to reporting almost any march or demo. I am not sure why.

They never have. It's their impartiality rules I think. Unless the size is of national significance: eg brings London to a standstill.

They can go to the moon....build space stations in space....send thousands of satellites that can track even the small rodent via their technology.....yet they 'can't' find these missing people?

Despite all of our technology, the world is still a big place and without leads then looking for a missing person is very much like looking for a needle in a haystack.

OP, if your social media is flooded with these pictures you really need to question the people you follow/are friends with.

These people are idiots with no understanding of the actual issues around human trafficking. In a nutshell - it's adults who are trafficked to work on farms, factories, car washes, or domestic service, and, less often, forced into prostitution (non-sex work is more sustainable and profitable). Young children are not trafficked (or if they are it's vanishingly rare). Children are useless on farms or in factories, at least in the west, and anyone with the critical thinking skills of a mollusc would know that paedos don't need to traffic children, they find them in their own families or in schools or sports clubs or churches. It has always been thus.

These protestors should be ignored because they have no idea what they're on about. The ones I saw in Leeds today were wearing tons of q-anon slogans and are basically mentally unwell conspiracy theorists.

@orangesnapples

Is it me or is it not very strange that 1000s of people currently marching though our major cities today and no media coverage?

They are marching for our children's rights, to awareness to trafficking etc

Does the lack of coverage just play into the hands of those that accuse the media of being part of the problem.

They are currently peacefully marching to bring awareness because there sadly is hardly any awareness of trafficking, most people have the completely strep typical idea of what trafficking is, that is all some world wide elite club.
But the sad truth it looks very different, and is probably happening in a home near you right now.

So why no coverage. My SM is flooded with 1000s I f people walking the streets of Liverpool, London etc.

I don't want to believe there is darkness in control of our media and what we see etc but honestly I can't think for the life of me why this isn't being covered.

Not weird at all. Most marches are not covered by the media. There are matches and demos of some kind most days. Few are newsworthy

They lack understanding so much that they don't even have a clue who trafficking mainly affects - here's a clue, it's not white British people in general.
Can't imagine these fascists care about the rights of non-whites much so it makes it even more laughable.

Young children are not trafficked

Totally untrue. Thousands are trafficked for the sex trade and the cannabis trade. This is why legalising cannabis would never work. No way could a legally produced product compete in price with one produced by slaves

its not white British people in general

Wrong again. Many hundreds of white British are trafficked as slave labour in the sex and drugs trades.

I am getting increasingly concerned about the ignorance shown on this thread

@JaniceBattersby

I am a newspaper reporter and was asked by a local group to cover the protest today. I didn’t, for several reasons

1. we have a single, on call reporter covering the whole county at the weekends. They can only really cover huge, urgent stories. This is the same for most local newspapers nowadays. (People cheered all over FB the last time there were redundancies announced - this is the dir3ct result of that).

2. The protest here was not very big. Maybe 30 people? That’s not a big news event, certainly smaller than many other protest that happen around here.

3. I asked the group for some local stats on child abuse and trafficking to localise the story. They did not provide me with any. I asked them to be specific about their protest - they told me it was ‘against child trafficking’. Everyone is against child trafficking (except the traffickers) so not really a news story.

4. Mass gatherings are banned under current Covid-19 laws.

5. Most importantly, many of the organisers’ FB feeds were also filled with alt-right madness linked to 5g, anti-vax, anti-mask conspiracy theories mixed in with their #saveourchildren hashtags. The inference is that the police, politicians, and the media (or the MSM, as the crackpots like to call us) are responsible for child abuse. The last time I looked, the only people bothered enough to sit at court for seven hours on a wet Tuesday to make people aware of the latest paedo being sentenced, were local newspaper reporters. So yeah, if you want us to cover your protest, next not to slag us off on your open FB profile.

6. I do not want to give conspiracy theorists a platform. I discussed this with my editor and she agreed. That’s as far as the conspiracy goes on this one. I imagine there were similar conversations in newsrooms around the country. If you want to be credible and come across as rational, don’t ally yourself with right wing lunatics.

Being anti vaccination is alt right is it? A different opinion to yours is to be labelled and maligned. You are what you profess to hate.

Aren't there marches for something or other every weekend in many large towns and cities?

@Clive222

Young children are not trafficked

Totally untrue. Thousands are trafficked for the sex trade and the cannabis trade. This is why legalising cannabis would never work. No way could a legally produced product compete in price with one produced by slaves

Less than 4% of all people trafficked are under 8

Many of those will be due to a spike in 0-1 year olds who are born from mothers who were victims of human trafficking

Children represent the lowest risk category for human trafficking

My niece and her friends are part of save our children and they are far from right wing or conspiracy loons.