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Why don't the news media report the reasons why migrants come to the UK on boats? (feddit.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

because the reason varies from migrant to migrant

I don't see why varying reasons for getting in boats justifies not reporting on those reasons.

Usually there will be a line or two in the report about ... possibly why

I've never seen such a line. Can you provide a reference to one?

someone who isn't in a position to be interviewed

What do you mean by this?

[–] Pronell 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those reasons aren't known, so must be assumed. The migrants are typically arriving illegally and don't want the attention of interviews.

Lastly, I'm 50, and can't document my memory but typically I would listen to news on something like NPR and they would say that a migrant boat was captured, say, from Greece, and say that there's extremely high unemployment there. Other reasons given would be natural disasters, outbreaks of violence, lack of food, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Those reasons aren't known

What makes you think that?

The migrants are typically arriving illegally and don't want the attention of interviews.

The migrants depart as well as arrive. I find it hard to believe that the media has no knowledge whatsoever of what kind of motives these people have. If they didn't have such knowledge, I would expect them to at least state that the motives are unknown. Instead what I find is just a void of any mention of motivations whatsoever, to the point that it gives the appearance of an intentional blackout. Hence my question: why?

Greece, and say that there's extremely high unemployment there

I think we're talking about different phenomena here. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about, which isn't Greek citizens looking for work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_European_migrant_crisis

Edit: I see you're talking about NPR which I believe is American. To be clear I'm talking about British media. Perhaps foreign media doesn't have the same appearance of a blackout.