To be shocked by how little coverage there is about the farmers protests in Brussels?

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Admittedly, haven’t watched the TV news, but scrolling through Sky and BBC news online, it doesn’t get a mention, despite thousand of tractors blockading Brussels, and being fired on with water cannons and rubber bullets, fires being lit outside the EU Parliament, and slurry being poured into supermarkets.

i feel like a conspiracy theorist, but it looks like major news from clips seen on Twitter, so why no MSM stories?
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1753418316155080897?s=61
https://x.com/jimfergusonuk/status/1753061338996158869?s=61

It was on the BBC news 2 days ago - police called in, fireworks etc being let off mid&protests, rolling tractor blockades on the motorways.

But to be fair, we're not in the EU anymore.....

Well there’s stories about Paris, Chile, US and Iraq, and we’re not there either..

I'm not surprised. It's being talked about quite a lot within the farming community, but the government will be concerned in case UK farming join in. British farming is on its knees, one big farmer I know isn't even bothering planting as the most they earned last year was about £10 per acre. They make more money out of planting wildflower than they do wheat. Another I know still has grain in the barn from 2022 harvest, because he can only sell it for less than it cost to produce - I think he should cut his losses and sell, but he is trying to hold out for a price increase. Everytime the supermarkets report shortages of eggs or milk, its false as farmers will be throwing it away because supermarkets won't pay. Kids going to agricultural college now can only hope to earn minimum wage. Meanwhile the little bits of extra income from shooting are ebbed away because of protesters. Trespassing has become a major issue and rural crime is on the increase, but we aren't allowed to talk about why without being accused of racism.

https://news.sky.com/story/fires-erupt-as-farmers-protest-outside-european-parliament-in-brussels-13061212

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-68168498

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/farmer-protest-tractors-eu-brussels-france-b2488790.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/angry-farmers-descend-brussels-take-protest-eu-summit-2024-02-01/

It was on the BBC news a couple of day's ago but nothing since..... maybe they are worried our farmers will join in?? 🤔🤔

Farmer's protests in Europe have been ongoing for a couple of weeks and have definitely had a decent amount of 'msm' coverage. If it's more of the same in Brussels they're probably not going to do another report. Remember too that most newsrooms aren't heavily staffed at weekends so they have to prioritise stories.

This idea that everything is a conspiracy is so odd

Of course it’s not on the ‘news’. In the same way as the protests against lockdowns hardly ever made the news. Those protests spawned many European countries and got very serious, but the only show in town for three years was how everyone wanted harder lockdowns.

These protests simply do not go with the established prolifically narrative. How dare farmers protest against green initiatives and the decimation of their livelihoods.

Now watch the ‘yeah but, no but’ brigade come along and try and prove how it’s a conspiracy theory and we’re all just imagining the severity of this.

It's been on BBC TV news, and their on-line. Widely reported in the papers. I avoid social media, Twitter etc, so no idea about that.

We don’t print heresy.

I read a French news site so knew about the French farmers protesting but not Belgian ones.

There have been a few articles I've seen about German farmers protesting. They have been for a while. I was surprised - you expect it from the French farmers, but Germany has always been seen as a well run, well ordered society. However the country is in crisis. DP is German and he is very gloomy about it.

Its on the news a bit, but there are multiple protests every single day all over the place, if they were all reported in full there would be nothing else on TV

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I guess my point is that it wasn’t on the home page of the news channels, so you had to go searching for it, whereas arguably lesser news in other countries was featured.

The Sky link was from Thursday. Maybe that’s why it’s no longer front page news.

I’m starting to think that the conspiracies around the WEF might have more than a grain of truth tbh. It all seems to be happening in real time.

News outside the UK seems to get a lot less coverage than say 20 years ago in part because of the change in presentation style.

OP, you think "the news" we see here is a completely unbiased selection of notable events?

No. It's absolute propaganda, deliberately chosen to influence you, it's coercive.

That's why here, there is an absolutely relentless onslaught of stories about Global Warming, CO emissions, get rid of the car, walk everywhere. Yet, go to other countries and there is a completely different agenda being pushed.

We don't hear about the Housing Crisis in Ireland because it would draw focus to the effects of uncontrolled immigration, and our government doesn't want us thinking about that. Same reason there are no stories about the true numbers of people coming to the UK illegally. Ditto the absolute planet wrecking fiasco that are Electric Cars.

Don't rely on "the news" for anything.

U.K. farmers are planning similar according to TikTok. Lots of videos of meetings.

I totally support them. So long as there is no violence and no fireworks.

“We”? You control the media?

”heresey”? Not sure what religion has to do with this.

I heard something on the news yesterday about farmers in Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany - and Wales. It was something about inside and outside the EU. I will see if I can remember where I heard it.

That's terrible

There's been stuff on Farming Today, but it wasn't that I heard. Probably R4 though.

Yes, sorry to disappoint the tinfoilers but I've seen coverage of farmers' protests in France, Italy and Belgium over the last week.
Maybe it's the kind of news they watch? Too busy with the government plots to actually report real events.

Says the mask wearing sheep! How many years did you have your muzzle on for to save you from the dreaded cold?