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Quiet Em

(3,024 posts)
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 11:35 AM Jul 2025

The Media gave very little coverage to the No Kings Protests

even my local media barely touched it.

It was huge. Millions of people showed up in unity against this con artist and his authoritarian regime.

Ignoring the people is not going to work. If they pass this bill and cause extreme financial burdens on millions of people, all for the benefit of billionaires and the con artist, the No Kings protest will be a drop in the bucket for what happens next.

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Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
1. I almost called you a wet blanket then I saw "Ignoring the people is not going to work". So true.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 11:39 AM
Jul 2025

It works in the short term but not the middle term and definitely not the long term.

The biggest symptom of ignoring the people is the stupefyingly large wealth and income inequality. It is unsustainable and has been building for decades.

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
2. Not the media I watch. The coverage was great, even from small rural towns. Search under "No Kings Protest Coverage."
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 11:40 AM
Jul 2025

You'll get a zillion videos, news reports, etc., from national and local media.

Quiet Em

(3,024 posts)
3. 3 of the five local TV stations in my area barely mentioned it.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 11:44 AM
Jul 2025

The local newspaper was in walking distance. Very little coverage.

Most of the coverage I did find was on social media. Facebook, Threads and Bluesky.

stopdiggin

(15,639 posts)
5. I thought the coverage was excellent.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 11:51 AM
Jul 2025

With the point made again and again that this was happening coast to coast - and in small towns on up to larger metropolis. Together with a a fairly lively discussion for several days after. (the 'counter'-protesters were in short supply - and looking pretty pathetic .. )

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travelingthrulife

(5,586 posts)
4. They learned this before Dubya's Iraq War. If it wasn't mentioned in the media, it
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 11:50 AM
Jul 2025

never happened. There were millions of people in the streets in US and across the world protesting our aggression but the media showed 35 people at a Tea Party rally, or whatever they called themselves then.

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)
7. I was watching mostly Al Jazeera that day, and for what it's worth they covered the protests.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 11:56 AM
Jul 2025

AJ literally had reporters on the ground Unfortunately, they also covered Trump's military parade, but they made it look sad.

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