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Most documentaries about the grooming scandal are about dishonest reporting

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Justwrong68 · 05/01/2025 12:32

x.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1875847368656167394?s=46

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/01/2025 20:37

Yes, I know, I've read it, that's why I posted it.

BigBadaBoom · 09/01/2025 21:34

People's recollection of long-ago media events reveals more about their biases and prejudices than it does about the events themselves.

EsmaCannonball · 09/01/2025 22:15

OneAmberFinch · 05/01/2025 22:48

https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1876019750108557556

An attempt to quantify my previous post: Matt Goodwin apparently looked up the number of articles published since 2011 on "grooming gangs" (there were none before that apparently) vs a number of other topics. Long thread but very interesting!

A selection:

Between 2011 and 2025 the Guardian had 113 articles on the grooming gang phenomenon compared to 3,325 for "Islamophobia"

What about the BBC? We can look at BBC News 24 and BBC Radio 4

There were 357 specific mentions of the "grooming gang" scandal in BBC News/Radio 4 transcripts

Meanwhile, there were 7,537 for "George Floyd", 3,219 for "Stephen Lawrence", 7,416 for "Black Lives Matter", and 2,259 for "Islamophobia"

Honestly, this tracks with my anecdotal feeling!

For the past few years BBC News has basically become another American news channel. There can be a massive story breaking in the UK but if you switch on BBC News they will be having a Zoom call discussion with American pundits about something controversial and asinine that was said by some obscure, slightly loony congressman from Tuscaloosa.

The fact that the licence fee is going towards news output that prioritises American stories and encourages viewers to see current affairs through a distorting American prism is just another reason that people feel increasingly alienated by those who are running our institutions.

Happyinarcon · 24/01/2025 06:28

I think the media has been dividing people into groups for years now and feeding them different versions of the truth thanks to the internet. An honest article might be tucked behind a paywall, but an important sounding headline article, agenda driven and full of half truths will be widely circulated. Same as the died WITH Covid vs the died OF Covid reporting drama

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