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nxylas

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8. They already did, with round the clock UKIP coverage

Reply to NewJeffCT (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 08:13 AM

Jun 2014

Comedian David Schneider tweeted that if the protesters wanted coverage for their march, they should have named it Nigel Farage.

Incidentally, the current head of BBC News is a former Murdoch lackey. Which I'm sure has absolutely nothing to do with this disparity.

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50,000 protest austerity outside BBC; BBC ignores [View all] ellenrr Jun 2014 OP

Recd. Must've borrowed a page from American MSM. nt raccoon Jun 2014 #1

BBC = ReRe Jun 2014 #2

I posted years ago about the change in control of the BBC -- snot Jun 2014 #12

Yeah... ReRe Jun 2014 #13

Canada's CBC is going that way too. Joe Shlabotnik Jun 2014 #14

Yes, I remember that. And we still don't know what really happened behind the scenes. Just that one sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #17

It took our media, which was covering three person Tea Party "events" about two weeks to acknowledge merrily Jun 2014 #3

I loved this one...reminds me of home. Stellar Jun 2014 #4

+1 daleanime Jun 2014 #6

That is exactly what has happened... truebrit71 Jun 2014 #10

Hear, hear! k&r n/t Laelth Jun 2014 #5

Next week, half that number of right wingers will show up NewJeffCT Jun 2014 #7

They already did, with round the clock UKIP coverage nxylas Jun 2014 #8

I think people around the globe need to be in the streets LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #9

People around the world ARE in the streets. ellenrr Jun 2014 #15

There was a very large demo in Spain the same day also. Joe Shlabotnik Jun 2014 #11

Hmm. Time to move the protest *inside* the building(?) Matariki Jan 2015 #16