are gathering on the streets on london for pride as the lgbt+ community marks 50 years since the first march. now on bbc news, the media show. hello, and welcome. this week, we re talking about the return of q. and if that doesn t mean anything to you, don t worry. you ll be hearing a lot more in this programme about one of the world s most notorious conspiracy theories. we re also looking at white bristol s mayor is facing a boycott of his press briefings and what it says about the often fractious relationship between councils and journalists. among our guests on that topic are martin booth, editor of bristol 24 7, and charlotte green, who s a local democracy reporter with the manchester evening news. martin, welcome to the media show. what s your big story in bristol today? so, today i ve been visiting bristol s newly repainted rainbow crossing, just painted in time for our city s pride celebrations. so we ve got a brand new rainbow crossing on wine street. sounds fantast
what s your big story in bristol today? so, today i ve been visiting bristol s newly repainted rainbow crossing, just painted in time for our city s pride celebrations. so we ve got a brand new rainbow crossing on wine street. sounds fantastic. charlotte, what have you been covering in tameside? so, in tameside, we ve just got a new council leader. after the last one was deposed following the local elections. and so i have been speaking to them about what their plans are for the borough and what they are going to do difficult or differently. so that is the full spectrum of localjournalism right there. thank you. and we will hear more from both of you and others in a bit. but we are going to start with an extraordinary story from the other side of the atlantic. qanon is the conspiracy theory that says donald trump has been waging war on a cabal of satanic paedophiles who stole the 2020 us election. completely unfounded theories but believed by significant numbers. qanon supporters were