AIBU to question the media response to the Belfast attack?

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Why are the media being silent on the Belfast attack?

Is the open borders narrative that important to them that they feel the need to ignore one of the most horrific attacks ever seen on a UK street?

I despair for the future of the UK. It’s grim.

What Belfast attack?

YABU to not share a link to explain what you’re talking about, or at least give more details in your post if there’s genuinely no articles anywhere.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Just gone onto BBC news and it’s a top story. So not sure the media are being silent on it - they probably had to wait to report it whilst verifying facts etc.

YABU. There’s no conspiracy or cover up.

There's already a thread (link below).

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5540306-belgast-last-night-horrific-attack-why-is-this-not-being-reported-on-bbcsky-etc

Well the bbc have it as a news story. Seems to be a stabbing of just one person with no deaths as yet? Horrific as that is, sadly, I don’t think it counts as ‘one of the most horrific attacks ever seen on a uk street.
Press and police are possibly also keeping many details unsaid right now until it becomes clearer what has happened and why. Rumours are never helpful.

Another goady thread on this one
now there's a surprise

Maybe the media wants to get the facts before the report more detail. Which is a good thing.

The answer to your question is that they are not being silent. They are presumably following guidance from the police about what should be reported.

Read the article and the watch the video. You would be forgiven for thinking they were describing a different incident.

At about 0805 this morning on bbc news there was a report of a 'serious stabbing' in North Belfast and that people had tried to intervene. There are enquiries still happening.
They reported that one woman had to go to hospital in shock after seeing what she saw.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdejnjdg08eo

So silent

Are you just trying to push a narrative? Why?

Definitely unreasonable- this is an unfolding event and it’s important that the news channels report it accurately - and fairly - for any upcoming trial.

However, you can see plenty of comment on X - riling people up as if it’s a conspiracy to hide non white crime - hint it really, really is not.

There are lots of articles but no detail. I think we expect to know everything immediately these days, but news reporting takes time to verify details, police investigations take time to methodically collect evidence and build a case. It sounds absolutely awful of course and I am so sorry for the victim and witnesses.

I cannot see the video or anything as I don't have social media. Apart from this being a horrific crime, what is it about this that makes you feel its the worst attack in UK?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdejnjdg08eo

https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2026-06-09/arrest-after-man-seriously-injured-in-belfast-stabbing

It's a conspiracy cover up I tells ya!

Yep! I think this is the 3rd one between 8-9am asking why there’s nothing in the news/media are silent… the BBC has had the story on its website since 6:42am.

This story started circulating in the early hours well before the BBC started to cover it and according to some reports sounds truely truely horrific.

One can only hope the reason for the delay in the MSM covering it is simply a need to verify the details and nothing more than that.

This one managed to spell Belfast correctly, though. That’s a bonus, I guess, given the level of debate from the protagonists?

T. W.

In 1992 Rachel Nickell was stabbed 49 times and virtually decapitated by a man on Wimbledon common. Broad daylight. Her son was witness.

Was that not a horrific attack on UK soil? The perpetrator was a white Brit. Does that make it less horrific, or was it because she was a woman?

It wasn’t a stabbing. It was the gouging out of eyes and an attempted beheading. It was barbaric. And it won’t be reported by msm that the attacker was Somalian or what he was shouting.

I had just seen this on the news before finding your post. Therefore I cannot agree that the media are silent on it. It may be that they are not able to publish full details, but it is being reported.

It’s on the BBC homepage.

But these things are always reported once the facts have been established and there is no risk of prejudicing a case. Are you literally so stupid that you think the mainstream media has never reported on non white criminals or attempted murderers shouting religious statements? Is this your first day on earth?

Ok now I understand a little better why this is different. Is this clear from the footage circulating? In that case, the police really should make some kind of statement to avoid the panic and distrust that occurred around Southport.

I've just seen reporting about it on BBC breakfast.