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UK March for disabled in London virtual silence in right wing media surprised?
Hardest Hit March supported by loads of charities and left wing mps and celebs in London against the cuts to vital services and the abhorrent tests for Employment Allowance by unqualified racket ATOS. There are thousands protesting also protests against ATOS all over the country as have been before i hope in time ATOS contract will be scrapped and qualified GPS etc will be used . The nasty media like the Daily Hate Mail have been misleading the public in fact been the supporters of ATOS scum and implying that the vast majority are lying scroungers thankfully there head quarters have been targeted to . If you can please support protests and charities send a message to Cameron and his lap dog Clegg the disabled and there families will not put up with it anymore scrap ATOS and create a fair system that protects the vulnerable fund maybe by taking more from the bailed out banks .
Diane sorry you made consider it a rant and yes its a bit passionate but because there is a genuine issue the disabled all over England are being affected by callous decisions the right wing media have been silent about protests my question is are you surprised?
Thanks for replies so far just checked right wing papers websites and guess what not a single paragraph about yesterdays protests The Sun the tabloid comic just mentions a case of disability benefit fraud one of the 0.5%cases .Only The Guardian has proper coverage and comments yesterday the BBC mentioned briefly as did ITV it seems the issues effecting the disabled are not seen as that important even the progressive media like The Independent are silent this will make it easier for this government to put the boot in ATOS will remain and cuts will be deeper while there is no proper coverage to expose and fuel a fight back.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The right wing media will not do anything to help anyone who does not promote their cause or show what pathetic liars and cowards they are. Students on a march where a few behave like idiots and cause damage and the media is all over them. It gives the media a chance to say 'we were right'. It is only when damage is done or their world is disrupted that anything gets into the right wing media. It is a sad fact. If the demonstrators had held up traffic, chained their wheelchairs etc to buses etc, they would have been called layabouts and trouble makers but they would have made the news!
- ?Lv 41 decade ago
Not in the least, the disabled have always suffered from either being invisible or 'more to be pitied than scolded' by a vociferous section of the more able-bodied members of society. Being able-bodied does not, in a disturbingly large number of cases, necessarily endow them with much in the way of reasoning.
- SydLv 61 decade ago
It's difficult to slander the disabled as thugs hence the silence in the right wing media. Don't worry, though. If they can find any suggestion that any of these people are not as disabled as they claim, they'll splash it all over their front pages and use it to damn all disabled people in the country, like they do with every other section of society their pet government wants to persecute.
- Linus UppLv 61 decade ago
The people responsible for information about this event are the ones to ask why so little publicity was gained.
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