May bank holiday the anti-globalisation campaigners aren’t marching in London.
Away from the TV headlines will their cause wither and die? A combination of the post Iraq war domination of the news agenda and a change of strategy by the campaigners has caused them to give it London a miss this year.
So how much damage will the campaigners disappearance from the bulletins do to their cause?
Some are saying it’s actually helped them. They’re glad to get rid of those negative images of violence by their more extreme supporters and they are now using alternative media to further their cause.
They say by focussing on conflict and violence the news bulletins failing to report on what is actually happening with international campaigning groups.
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