No more austerity: are protests ‘news’?
“Those kinds of numbers go to premier league football matches every week, and we wouldn’t call that news.” But the BBC covers those Premier League football matches every time they take place!
Interesting questions here about what campaigners need to do in order to be heard by a media that has an increasingly narrow focus – mostly, as pointed out here, on Nigel Farage.
needs some heat before press will warm to it
Protests are only news when there is damage or people getting hurt.