Whatever Happened To The War On Terror And Loons In Trucks Etc?

[douglas9401]

Did we win or are we in the middle of a news management event designed to help rebuild (I know) community relations?

Has all that grooming stuff been sorted too? Seems very unlikely.

[fiction-factory]

Are you asking whether loons in trucks are still going round killing people in the name of Islam jihad but the news is being hidden from us?

[fiction-factory]

Has all the grooming stuff been sorted too? Barry Bennell has been given 31 years I heard today

[douglas9401]

Not trucks specifically but Islamist chat in general.

Maybe there's been a chat with the editors?

[naomi24]

Five people were gunned down and killed by an Islamist in a church in Russia the other day. It only got about an inch of news space though.

[bainbrig]

"It only got about an inch of news space though."

Gordon Bennet, I've seen some pathetic attempts to drag in the alleged Islamic conspiracy by the short and curlies, but that absurd comment is up with the best of them.

[naomi24]

Ahhh ... the BBC are now reporting it. Better late than never.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43105171

You were saying, bainbrig?

[douglas9401]

IslamIST, bainbrig, it's important to distinguish that tendency from the religion of peace.

[naomi24]

^ :o)

[Gromit]

Slow news day then.

Surely the lack of any recent atrocities in this country is something to be welcomed.

But not on AB.

[naomi24]

Gromit, can't see anyone saying that isn't welcome.

[-Talbot-]

I assume by 'lack of any recent atrocities in this country' you are talking about trucks?


The grooming has not gone away only the appetite to talk about it.
People would rather not take the risk of being called an Islamaphobe, or racist ... which is how the groomers got away with it in the first place.

[Togo]

It is official EU policy to play down all "negative" news and to moderate all reporting of criminal activity by both Immigrants and Muslims. The EU, has programs in place -- such as the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (REC) that seek heavily to influence European mainstream news outlets and their journalists with its own agenda. Some of the "advice" given follows.
" Take care not to further stigmatise terms such as 'Muslim' or 'Islam' by associating them with particular acts... Don't allow extremists' claims about acting 'in the name of Islam' to stand unchallenged. Highlight... the diversity of Muslim communities."
"Improve media coverage related to migration, refugees, religion and marginalised groups... counter hate speech, intolerance, racism and discrimination... improve implementation of legal frameworks regulating hate speech and freedom of speech."
This is all hidden in the EU "fake news" initiative meaning that the European Commission's recently appointed 39 "experts" to a so-called "High Level Group (HLEG) on Fake News and online disinformation can decide what constitutes........."fake news" and therefor bring about court or legal action against anyone who reports "negative" information. Remember how the protection of personal information laws were for your benefit, but turned out to be a tool for government organisations to use as a shield when under scrutiny?

[Togo]

Forgot to add..... with thanks to Judith Bergman.

[Peter Pedant]

no I think it is still going on

it is one of those things where you cant really say
'look everyone, I am in the war on terror and giving Islam hell ! - or whatever you call those blood thirsty child killers this week!"

[ichkeria]

One reason might be that mercifully we have not had any attacks here recently (hope that is not tempting fate).
And the ‘grooming stuff’ if I follow is simply not a current story. That is the news for you.

[-Talbot-]

And the ‘grooming stuff’ if I follow is simply not a current story. That is the news for you.



I suppose it isn't if you couldn't give a damn.
To others it is a ongoing nightmare.

[andy-hughes]

The media - all media - operates in a competitive market, so it always has one eye on the dangers of subject saturation, which leads to desertion of readers, with attendant damage to image and / or revenues.

So, with that in mind, the media skates a thin line, balancing the current 'trend' for certain news topics, against the danger of over-reaching the readership's tolerance for repetition.

Once the tipping point is reached, the media will, en masse, move wholesale to another topic.

So, a few weeks ago it was all Isis truck bombers, now it's sex scandals in charities - and so the moveable feast moves on.

T'was ever thus.

[Togo]

// it always has one eye on the dangers of subject saturation, which leads to desertion of readers, with attendant damage to image//

Haha .......Sorry just had to laugh. :))

[Baldric]

Hi Togo,
Contact made, he could be better health wise, sends you 'Best Wishes'

[Togo]

Ta Baldric. Sorry for sub agenda Douglas. Hope we don't fall foul of the "news editors". You know, all in the interest of community relations. (^_*)