The World's Biggest Non-Coverage
If the World’s Biggest Just-About-Anything doesn’t get covered, that’s a story.
If it’s the World’s Biggest Strike in what is frequently billed as the World’s Biggest Democracy that’s not getting covered, that’s a Really Big Story.
Well, it’s Day 12 and estimates vary but 250 million participants is a reasonable estimate of the magnitude of India’s General Strike, which began on November 26, 2020.
Do you know what has unfolded over the 11 days so far? Do you know why and how workers are striking? If you make an effort, the information s out there, but it is a Big Story that is simply not being told to mainstream media consumers in the U.S. I check multiple times daily and I have never seen the General Strike in India as the Top Story in the International section of Google News. It has not trended on Yahoo. It has not been a top Foreign story on CNN or MSNBC.
Farmers and associated working people are specifically protesting agricultural deregulation that they claim will favor large corporations and put small farmers out of business. Over half the population of India are small farmers. I would be glad to try to explain more but I would be out of my depth very rapidly.
The General Strike in India is not my story to tell. But the way media outlets in the west manipulate public opinion by what they show and what they don’t show is something I am qualified to comment on and I have been for a long time.
Someone doesn’t want lots of people in the U.S. of A. entertaining thoughts of General Strike, thank you very much. The World’s Biggest General Strike in India, the Yellow Vest Movement in France, the Miners in Mali, the Dockworkers in Nigeria. All right now. Dots not connected.
Nothing to see here, move along.
The main idea about making change in the U.S. is massing and marching to create awareness about how strong people feel. There are other approaches and General Strike is one. In general, non-cooperation in its many forms has a better track record at producing change than massive protest.
That’s why The World’s Biggest Strike is not being covered.
The World’s Biggest Strike is too powerful an idea.