What is the world seeing when looking at the UK riots?

[kangofu]

England riots: The global reaction
By Olivia Lang
Source - BBC NewsThe riots in British cities have unsurprisingly dominated headlines in domestic papers. But there has also been extensive coverage overseas. So what does the rest of the world make of the unrest

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[lickety_split]

What is the world seeing when looking at the UK riots?

Not a gotdamn thing if you're relying on televised news in the US. Jesus Christ. Literally, it's the same shot of some building on fire and then they switch to some other shot of a police officer on a horse and then that's it.

[kangofu]

I haven't watched TV in more than a year. I get all my news from here, other internet news sites and my phone.

[bathstone]

They keep emphasizing that the police don't have guns. It's like - okay we get it, the police are unarmed, can you stop repeating yourself and report new information?

I swear to god, I've learned everything about these riots from ontd_political. The US media is useless about any subject that doesn't involve the stock market going down.

[roseofjuly]

This. Sometimes I read the New York Times digitally and I feel like I'm reading the Financial Times or something. It's like 70% of their stories are financial, especially the debt deal, and the other 30% are actual important news around the world. (Also their iPad app is pretty shitty, as it only allows you to see big headlines and not things by section. They are really trying to safeguard this news-as-a-commodity model and it is not working.)

But yeah, everything I know about the riots, I have learned here.

[rex_dart]

By Anthony Daniels

But thankfully not the cool Anthony Daniels.

[purple01_prose]

Oh good.

[homasse]

This Anthony Daniels guy makes me want to kick him in the shins.

[kangofu]

Glad it's not just me. I was thinking he's inspiring me to conk him on the head, and I'm not even one of those "violent British youths."

[romp]

KIDS TODAY!

[mephisto5]

I'd like to get drunk and headbutt him repeatedly, but I think that might play into the stereotype. :/

Seriously though, that article is a sack of shit.

[ellenel13]

USA networks don't care unless it's a royal wedding.

I've learned of the riots via online

[roseofjuly]

It's kind of sad - when Kate Middleton and the prince were getting married all you could HEAR about was their wedding, what dress she was wearing, and other news that only a tiny segment of the population actually cares about. Now the British are motherfucking rioting in the streets and not a peep? Then again, I'm pretty sure the power elite don't want us getting any crazy ideas in our heads like protesting for our rights and causing social unrest or anything.

[parhelion_spark]

Then again, I'm pretty sure the power elite don't want us getting any crazy ideas in our heads like protesting for our rights and causing social unrest or anything.

MTE.

[devilstay]

'Of course it is true that not all young Britons are unattractive in appearance' - lol...wut?

'In England it is difficult now, quite literally, to distinguish the sound of people enjoying themselves from that of someone being murdered' - Is, this meant to be helpful?

'football tickets are now so expensive that it is no longer the game of the poor. Thus poverty does not explain the quick resort to violence' - Poverty isn't just about being able to afford a football ticket. It has a lot to do with the QUALITY of life, which means, that the fact that teens have 'BlackBerrys' or 'designer-branded clothes', does not mean, they are rolling in money. Poverty, also has to do with, LACKING EQUAL opportunities in life. The knowledge, that you can work hard forever, and still not move in life, because you're continually paying for OTHER people to live well.

I also,refuse to apologize, for feeling entitled to a future, and not just any random future thrown at me, but the future that I want.

This man, obviously has a bone to pick with, British