Sunday 6 February 2011

What Counts as News?

Yesterday, tired of hearing from the BBC the same news about Egypt that I'd heard the day before, I switched the television to Russia Today.

I was surprised to hear a story about a large anti-Muslim demonstration and counter demonstration in Luton. I don't think that was even mentioned by the BBC, and I did watch for it when I listened to the BBC news later in the day.

I wonder if someone decided that it would be better if we didn't know anything about it.

What else might they be keeping from us?

1 comment :

Ged said...

The BBC is notorious for only reporting news that fits in with its world-view, or that can be spun to do so. Often with articles on the BBC news site, what they leave out can be as revealing as what they put in.