Digital media not to blame for Broken Britain
I can hardly believe what I’m reading. The Guardian, having completed a study, reveals that Twitter and other social media sites were not the real villains in the recent riots.
In London, they report, most of the tweets followed after the violence had already broken out, whilst in Manchester the greatest proportion of tweets – 200,000 – were people organising themselves for the clean-up campaign. See here for the report in full.
Boris, Dave and Nick will no doubt be astounded to learn that social unrest most commonly has at its roots such trifling issues as poverty, inequality, racism and disenfranchisement. Which is a shame, because it’s that much easier to replace hoodies with a nice cable knit and mobile devices with a copy of the Telegraph, thus replacing the urge for protest with the urge to take a nice fulfilling gap ya feeding tofu to ponies in Guatemala (or something).
