In an unprecedented move today, news outlets around the world shifted their focus from their usual pandering to systemic economic conditions and biased focus on root-causes of social issues. Instead they turned their lens to offer much needed coverage to the myriad challenges faced by centuries-old hereditary privilege and the beneficiaries of fully tax payer-funded education.
et tu Grauniad?
I wonder why they chose that route, seeing as the protest had been going on for hours before they set of for the Royal Variety Performance. Would have made sense to avoid driving through such a potential dangerous situation. Not very chivalrous I’d say, putting yourself and your wife in “the line of fire” like that. Though I suppose it helps shift the headlines…
The performance is a benefit for the Entertainment Artistes’ Benevolent Fund, which “cares for hundreds of entertainers throughout the UK who need help and assistance as a result of old age, ill-health, or hard times, and Brinsworth House, in Twickenham, Middlesex, is the Fund’s dedicated nursing home, caring for elderly members of the entertainment profession.” The EABF looks like it will need the help, since the same austerity regime that is now forcing students to pay for the irresponsibility of the rich will also require the same of the aged.
EDIT An hour later the CBC and BBC lead pages are the same, and others have followed suit:
The Paper of Record
No surprise here:
Egregious:
@paaitken