DannyInvincible
11/08/2011, 7:13 AM
Starting in Salford and Manchester city centre now - for reasons unknown, Miss Selfridge has become the target of choice tonight.
A girl I know found herself trapped inside Marks and Spencers in Piccadilly Gardens on Tuesday evening as a group masked and with bikes gathered outside before smashing up the front and ransacking the stock. Admittedly, she's not immune to hyperbole now and again, but she did say it was pretty terrifying and that she had to make a break for it out the door past them as they rushed in only for her to be met by a stationary line of police in riot gear with dogs outside.
just something i thought worth mentioning. Since im home at the moment ive been watching a lot of CNN and other north american news stations. Their coverage of the London riots has been so muted its incredible. Usually they are all over stories of rioting/revolt a la Syria, Libya Egypt, Greece... but for London it has been near silent.
Now, i know that the headline in the States at the moment is the credit rating downgrade but London is not even second or third story, it got a 3 minute segment this morning. Would it be beyond the realms of possibility that the States are frightened to give this too much coverage perhaps fearing that it might cause a similar rising up in areas of America? I could be way off, just a thought - im confined to home at the moment so my imagination may be getting the best of me!!!
You could well be right. God forbid, we'd have people thinking the Western model mightn't be working for everyone!
You're assuming that Americans give a sh!t about whats happening in the rest of the world...I can assure you that they don't. The average American probably isn't even aware there is rioting in London.
I thought you were going to say that the average American isn't even aware of where London is. Not that there would be anything wrong with such a statement either. :p
A girl I know found herself trapped inside Marks and Spencers in Piccadilly Gardens on Tuesday evening as a group masked and with bikes gathered outside before smashing up the front and ransacking the stock. Admittedly, she's not immune to hyperbole now and again, but she did say it was pretty terrifying and that she had to make a break for it out the door past them as they rushed in only for her to be met by a stationary line of police in riot gear with dogs outside.
just something i thought worth mentioning. Since im home at the moment ive been watching a lot of CNN and other north american news stations. Their coverage of the London riots has been so muted its incredible. Usually they are all over stories of rioting/revolt a la Syria, Libya Egypt, Greece... but for London it has been near silent.
Now, i know that the headline in the States at the moment is the credit rating downgrade but London is not even second or third story, it got a 3 minute segment this morning. Would it be beyond the realms of possibility that the States are frightened to give this too much coverage perhaps fearing that it might cause a similar rising up in areas of America? I could be way off, just a thought - im confined to home at the moment so my imagination may be getting the best of me!!!
You could well be right. God forbid, we'd have people thinking the Western model mightn't be working for everyone!
You're assuming that Americans give a sh!t about whats happening in the rest of the world...I can assure you that they don't. The average American probably isn't even aware there is rioting in London.
I thought you were going to say that the average American isn't even aware of where London is. Not that there would be anything wrong with such a statement either. :p