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Just_Vote_Dem

(3,278 posts)
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 08:21 AM Apr 9

Mainstream media ignoring certain protests is not new

I remember at times a handful of people in a Tea Party rally that would have many more reporters than participants and getting huge coverage, while rallies and protests for civil rights and the like not getting the same coverage. Nothing new unfortunately.

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Mainstream media ignoring certain protests is not new (Original Post) Just_Vote_Dem Apr 9 OP
I remember marching against the Iraq war in NYC. HUNDREDS of thousands of people. No coverage to speak of. Scrivener7 Apr 9 #1
That's terrible Just_Vote_Dem Apr 9 #2
Pre-Iraq War, at least 500,000 people showed up in DC to march . . . . hatrack Apr 9 #3
May I suggest... returnee Apr 9 #4

Scrivener7

(56,096 posts)
1. I remember marching against the Iraq war in NYC. HUNDREDS of thousands of people. No coverage to speak of.
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 08:35 AM
Apr 9

hatrack

(62,776 posts)
3. Pre-Iraq War, at least 500,000 people showed up in DC to march . . . .
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 09:10 AM
Apr 9

NPR reported it the following day as "hundreds" - it was so bad that even Nice Polite Republicans apologized on-air.

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