October 20: media blackout
Mainstream media coverage of the labour movement is, as we all know, awful. But just how awful it is became clear following the TUC demonstrations on Saturday, 20 October. The BBC, to its credit, led the news at nine o’clock with coverage of the march and rally. But it chose not show any of the trade union speakers — not even a soundbite — and instead showed a few seconds of Labour Party leader Ed Miliband saying something stupid and being booed. That was so predictable that it could almost have been written before the event even took place with the film clip of Miliband added later. That was...