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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMainstream 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
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Scrivener7
(56,096 posts)1. I remember marching against the Iraq war in NYC. HUNDREDS of thousands of people. No coverage to speak of.
Just_Vote_Dem
(3,278 posts)2. That's terrible
Thanks for being in the fight!
hatrack
(62,776 posts)3. Pre-Iraq War, at least 500,000 people showed up in DC to march . . . .
NPR reported it the following day as "hundreds" - it was so bad that even Nice Polite Republicans apologized on-air.
returnee
(577 posts)4. May I suggest...
we demonstrate against them. They might cover that.