Good day to bury bad news - 20th jan 2025

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Guess what's happening on the 20th jan 2025 ?

Trump's Inauguration Day of course and given the fact all main stream media will be bleating on about it from the week before till the week after, how easy it would be for these events to be missed.

• Manchester duo trial ( close but not quite 16th not 20th). Charges authorised over Manchester Airport incident | The Crown Prosecution Service

• Southport attacker trial. LIVE Southport stabbings murder suspect named as he appears in court - Manchester Evening News

• Mentally ill man who attacked the army officer trial. Kent soldier stabbing: Trial date set as victim leaves hospital - BBC News

• That cheeky little councillor trial who suggested some needed a close shave. Who is Ricky Jones? The ex-Labour councillor who has appeared in court | The Standard.

So keep it simple and ask yourself how all the events above that all occurred at different times all now start at the same time.

How convent for all these things to start on the same day a huge worldwide event. I think its government steered and definitely not unreasonable to think these events have been scheduled then to hide bad news

I don't know if you missed it, but there's a Labour government in charge now. They don't need to hide things because they aren't doing them (proroguing parliament, funnelling money to fake PPE companies, watching porn in the House of Commons, sexually abusing their staff, etc).

Come off it. Unless something major happens at the inauguration, no-one in the UK is going to get that excited about it. Trials go on generally for several days, so verdicts will be happening when the inauguration is well over and done with.

None taken

Of course it will be covered. However, the idea that MSM are going to get so excited about it that it bumps everything else off the front pages for, potentially, several days or weeks, is frankly absurd.

OP is right. It's not the first time it's happened.

CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on 22nd November 1963. Which was also the day JFK was assassinated. It's like no one wanted to talk about the death of two literary luminaries, so the shadowy powers that control the media manipulated the news agenda.

OP, why do you keep ignoring the fact that the trials in question will last way longer than one day?

@pdq123 I'm curious to know whether you know of any conspiracy theories which involve Andrew Tate or Elon Musk? Or are they the 'good guys'? Somehow?

Yes I do.

Who do you think sets the court dates ?

Answers from AI mostly referring to Ministry of Justice - GOV.UK

Q) Is the ministry of justice part of the government

A) Yes, the Ministry of Justice is a crucial part of the UK government. It oversees the country's justice system, which includes courts, prisons, probation services, and legal aid. Its role is to ensure that the justice system is fair and effective.

The scheduling of court dates is primarily managed by the individual courts and the HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS). The process involves various factors, including the availability of judges, courtrooms, and the specific requirements of each case.

Q) who controls the HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS)

A) The HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is an executive agency sponsored by the Ministry of Justice in the UK. It is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil, and family courts in England and Wales, as well as reserved unified tribunals across the United Kingdom1.
HMCTS works closely with an independent judiciary to provide a fair, efficient, and effective justice system. They manage the work of various courts, including magistrates' courts, County Courts, Family Courts, Crown Courts, and the Royal Courts of Justice1.

Q) What would make a court case a priority for a court date

A) Seriousness of the Charges: Cases involving severe offenses, such as violent crimes or major fraud, are often prioritized.
We follow the Ministry of Justice’s outcome delivery plan to deliver swift access to justice.

You always know we have a crackpot conspiracy theorist on our hands when they start referring to 'msm'.

Seek help OP or at the very least step away from the Internet. You've been groomed to believe this bullshit. At best you look silly and people will be/are laughing at you. At worst, you will fall in so deep, you will develop significant anxiety and mental health issues. Just step away, it's not healthy.

The scheduling of court dates is primarily managed by the individual courts and the HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS). The process involves various factors, including the availability of judges, courtrooms, and the specific requirements of each case.

Exactly. The courts aren't controlled by the government - why else would there have been all those embarrassing findings against them, e.g. about the unlawful prorogation of Parliament, the Post Office case, the successful negligence claims by soldiers? How can the government control the availability of witnesses, barristers etc?

This must be the forensic skills I keep hearing about, unless you cant read and analyse all the data given in a succinct manner. ;)

From one of my earlier posts
United States presidential inauguration - Wikipedia
Since 1974 all inaugurations have taken place on the 20th jan.

If I was a spin doctour trying to manage bad news, this would be a prime candidate.

It was fixed months before Trump's election win, it doesn't matter who won the election, its a day the media is concentrating else where and not a slow news day where the media look to the local courts for a story.

Hence a "good day to bury bad news".

I think its a mistake to have all these trials/hearings start on these same day or week. All these events listed are potentially allowing further accusations of two tier justice to grow.

But to get them all out in a single day, perhaps allows the uninformed to be embarrassed when they say nothing has been done, when in fact the trials have been started. ( or the hearing, but more importantly legal action has been started)

First I agree that bad news can get released on such days certainly in the past - less so with how news is delivered today

but

1. these are the first days of long trials where little will happen and certainly nothing major

2. we v much have the separation of powers between the government, Parliament and the judiciary

Tin foil hats on tight!

(Two of those are not like the other. The two high profile killings by mentally ill males obviously would make news, a fight at an airport and a councillor being free with his words would typically be a back page story if that.)

And the only one really with any real power to hurt the government is the Southport trial and that is big enough to upstage Trump

ee don’t have a front page in the same way online to a newspaper which carried one

on my phone bbc news has 3 easily seen as do others one line to take you through to the story

Exactly where did I say that ? Your reading your own agenda into that.
Once the trials or hearing starts no one will report much about it till the end.

Its not that important but we can still expect rolling coverage the week it happens (sadly)

You are kidding, trials are often reported on a daily basis Southport certainly will I expect much easier online

I could type main stream media, but I cant be arsed.

Are you not with cool bods these days and use tla for everything ?

The dates of the election and the inauguration are set well before some of these crimes even occured, regardless of who won.
And its entirely possible to do. Look how easy it was to rush through the trials pf those arrested from the uk riots. The legal system is complex and unwieldy but it is possible to intervene in individual cases if its deemed in the public interest.

This is embarassing now

The organs crim isn't out president

Fewer than you think GAF about his inauguration

What very strange views!

"Killings by mentally ill males"
"A councillor being free with his words!"
"A fight at the airport "

Where did you say you live?
I don't think you would fit in well with the local WI.

I wear my tinfoil hat to avoid characters like you.

Do you think all four of those events you mentioned are equal in societal impact and newsworthiness? I can see why the attack and murders committed by the two mental ill men are big stories. Not the other two.

I must correct myself - the email stating it was a good day to bury bad news was not on the 911 attacks but was on the day of funeral of person of interest to the media.

But it's often used to describe a tactic where unfavourable information is released during a major event to minimize public scrutiny.

The most recent instance of the "good day to bury bad news" tactic in the UK occurred on February 29, 2024. On this day, the Home Office released 13 reports critical of UK border control at 4pm, coinciding with major news stories, including an inquiry into the murder of Sarah Everard and a large set of immigration statistics

@pdq123

Tell me in detail! why then all the court dates appeared in days after the riots

Sigh.

Because they followed the model already established to handle the riots in 2011 with extra capacity made and late night hearings to handle the sheer volume of criminal thugs before them.

Of course this too.