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.

The perpetrator in Belfast was not white and was shouting in a foreign language while he was sitting on his victim's chest and attempting to decapitate him, so also unlikely to be a native Briton.
These details are clear in the video (which is horrific), but are not being reported. Why do you think that is?

I have read reports that the victim was a young teenager.

Hard to miss in the news. It sounds horrible, but any worse than stabbing small children in a dance class? Or any of the other attacks usually carried out by people with severe mental health problems. No doubt riots to follow with all the usual people stirring up trouble.

Yes, the apparent lack of literacy or high rates of serious vision impairment is very worrying.

Was it? How do you know this?

Was the attacker Somalian? How do you know this?

You've read what other people on social media have written and are simply regurgitating it.

The actual media has to be more responsible with their reporting. Establishing facts takes time, not a blurry video on X.

This is why there is a perceived "delay" by the baying mob who want an excuse to start creating about immigration.

The descriptions sound horrific.

I also think that given the news in the recent weeks about Henry Nowak and the Nottingham stabbings enquiry that the news are making 100% sure they have the correct story before rushing to air.

The media are only going to fuel mistrust by not reporting on facts which are clearly visible in a video which is being widely circulated.

The actual media has to be more responsible with their reporting. Establishing facts takes time, not a blurry video on X

Exactly! The BBC did allude to the nature of the attack saying a bystander was so shocked by what she'd seen that she was taken to hospital.

Yes, it’s very clear from the footage.

The attacker straddled the victim, who is a much slighter smaller man, stabs him several times in the head, gouges his eyes out, and then starts attempting to saw his head off with a small knife. While shouting some kind of victory words.

Those people saying ‘what stabbing’ don’t you watch the news????
for anyone saying it’s not one of the worst stabbings and it’s not unusual again do you live under a rock????
it’s absolutely horrific, a man is trying to cut off a persons head basically.
In reply to the original post….lets be totally honest we know exactly why no police statement has yet been made. The attacker isn’t English, he’s shouting in a different language. Need I say more.

As it took place in Belfast then it's rather likely neither are English.

The attacker isn’t English

Or even Northern Irish, given it happened in Belfast...

Seriously, the media has to be responsible. They cannot just report videos being circulated as fact. They have to confirm details with police before broadcasting to the nation. And this only happened less than 12 hours ago, the police will still be in the middle of the initial investigation.

Gouges his eyes out? wtf and the rest

Barbaric insanity

Have you seen that it was a prolonged, attempted beheading?

You started your post with, why are the media being silent on the Belfast attack?
They're not. Many pp s have said they have seen the news.
Then you said:
"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?"
And I explained that a woman was decapitated by a man on Wimbledon common. That was a horrific attack.
If this is an attack by an immigrant then the truth will come out to all the mainstream channels and they will report responsibly.

I dont know about anyone else but I dont want to see video of someone being almost decapitated, that's why I don't get my news from social media.
So if that's what you spend your time doing, then I pity YOU and the very sad life that YOU lead.

If this is your main concern / reaction from my post then I’m guessing you live in a middle / upper class area where you aren’t affected by mass immigration.

OMG. This sounds absolutely horrendous. Did the victim survive?!

It always amazes me how many people’s immediate reaction to violence, if the victim is white and the perpetrator is a person of colour, is to downplay the attack/murder however horrific.

No he is dead.

Well no you don’t - your intent is clear too.

It is horrific - but there is no chance on god’s earth I am going to watch that video on X and I think it should be taken down.

The written details are sufficient to know that yes, it is a horrific crime - it does not mean we need to riot about it though and accuse news channels, or police, or Starmer, or next door’s cat of finding it acceptable and pushing a left agenda.

I live in a place enhanced by immigration. The consultant who treated my mum for cancer, immigrant. A good 50% of the nursing staff immigrants. I could go on

Why are you judging immigrants on this stabbing rather than the majority of them that are hard working assets to this country

Perhaps they are not being silent. But perhaps responsible is the right word ?
Perhaps they realise children can be watching TV.
Perhaps they are, seeking to ensure calm prevails and not madness.

It hasn't been reported on Times Radio.

Listening to BBC radio Ulster and it’s widely reported the victim is alive but critical.