Why Has This Been Almost Ignored By The Media, Yet If They Had Been A Far Right Group It Would Have Been Headlines?.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2841077/Police-clash-student-protestors-thousands-march-Parliament-Square-Tory-party-headquarters-anger-tuition-fees-graduate-debt.html

[Gromit]

Almost ignored?

It was the 3rd lead story in the Telegraph for 12 hours.

[ChillDoubt]

I saw brief coverage on Sky News yesterday. Maybe Murdoch pulled the plug shortly after.....

Cynical? Moi?

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe because students are always protesting something.

And it's hardly news that if you encourage all to go to Uni and then remove the grant system as unsustainable with those numbers, and then insist they have to take loans they will need to pay back (unless they are going there for a few years dossing around and get no decently paid job afterwards) and then keep raising the costs of getting the education, then this would be far too predictable to be news. Was deliberate policy aim, surely ?

[bibblebub]

even that rag decided that for its home page it was less important than a story about celeb's haircuts (much higher up the page and given as much space) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Almost ignored? ///

/// It was the 3rd lead story in the Telegraph for 12 hours. ///

Like I said 'almost' ignored.

7th in today's Telegraph, below such news worthy happening such as,

"HAS POD OF 40 PILOT WHALES SWUM TO SAFETY"?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

Click on the story regarding this riot and it comes under sub section "POLITICS"

[sp1814]

AOG

Please define 'almost ignored'.

I ask because there are appears to be a number of news outlets which have almost ignored this story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-30113313

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/thousands-of-students-protest-in-central-london-over-university-tuition-fees-9870619.html

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/nov/19/student-protest-tuition-fees-scuffles-police

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11240837/Watch-students-protest-against-tuition-fees-in-central-London.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/student-protests-recap-london-tuition-4656716

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tv/student-tuition-fee-protesters-march-uk-parliament-12809

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332484/TUITION-FEES-PROTEST-London-streets-flames-25k-rampage.html

http://www.london24.com/news/education/thousands_of_students_protest_over_tution_fees_in_london_1_3854145

http://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2014-11-19/students-to-take-to-the-streets-for-tuition-fees-protest/

[sp1814]

AOG

Did you not consider it worthwhile to check whether this story had been 'almost ignored' by the media before posting this question?

Apart from the BBC, Standard, ITV, Mail, Mirror, Telegraph and Guardian, who els to report the story?

FHM? The Dandy? Homes and Garden???

[jno]

the Guardian ran a live blog on it as it happened

http://www.theguardian.com/education/live/2014/nov/19/students-march-tuition-fees-live

Who's ignoring what here?

[sp1814]

Sorry...missed out Sky TV:

http://news.sky.com/story/899121/students-protest-over-tuition-fee-rise

And the Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/students-to-march-on-westminster-to-protest-tuition-fees-9831556.html

So, to recap - that's the biggest TV stations by viewership in the UK, plus a broad sweep of national newspapers - from the left to the right.

So...

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Since I could only see a couple of reports on the main newspaper's web sites I googled 'Student protests' at 10:47 the same amount of links as yours did not appear.

It was not on TV or Radio news last night or if it was I must have missed it, and even some of your links are from the Education subsection in their main web sites.

By the way your Mail link was dated 15 December 2010 and your ITV link was issued before the riot started

/// Thousands of students are expected to take to the streets of central London later calling for politicians to scrap tuition fees. ///

/// FHM? The Dandy? Homes and Garden??? ///

If you are going to be sarcastic, please let me join in, you missed out the Pink News

[anotheoldgit]

Funny no fascists, thugs, knuckle-daggers, etc, etc remarks to be seen.

We have much to fear from the Left.

[Buffalo-Bill]

Yawn

[vetuste_ennemi]

Did I notice a placard held by one of the protestors: "Booky wooks not Bommy woms"

[jno]

aog, the fact that a story is tagged with the name of a subsection doesn't mean it doesn't appear in the main news section of a site.

For instance this story is tagged as Home>Finance>Commodities

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/11243023/Theres-gold-in-them-thar-Welsh-valleys.html

and yet it is in fact on their news page

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

Thi is basically so that when a story is pushed off the News page by more recent stories, it can still be found elsewhere. This one may not be a top news story by tomorrow but it may still be one of the top ten finance stories.