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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWOW! Did you SEE all the coverage Morning Joe gave the climate change march today?!
Neither did I.
I guess it was too much of a "local story"...
Over 300,000 people in the street in Manhattan...and it's like it never happened...
I guess Joe, home in New Canaan and Mika in Bronxville with her family, just didn't much give a damn...no guests brought it up either...
Let's all go back to sleep...
merrily
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Joe doesn't even believe Joe. Ditto his beloveds from Politico and Game Change.
Crawl on screen. "None of us believes what he or she is saying. We want more money and we don't care what we have to do to get it."
That's what I see on the bottom of the screen whenever I watch.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)But the crew on Joe is especially disingenuous, IMO. They can barely keep a straight face.
Fla Dem
(23,339 posts)analysts and guests on. But no such luck. Blow Joe just talks over them and contradicts whatever they say. He made so me angry, I just had to stop watching.
malaise
(267,784 posts)It received about 30 second on most newscasts. I turned on Joe Scum to see how they covered it - I'm still waiting.
By the way, the people who count are saying over 400,000 folks were there.
Now if a Palin or Cruz led gang of 10 tea party goons with racist anti-Obama signs and 100 porta-potties had gathered, they would have given us live coverage.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)The news gerbils would have counted the porta-potties in their head count to inflate the attendance.
valerief
(53,235 posts)albino65
(484 posts)unless it's to keep track of the enemy. Does anyone ever ask him about interns anymore, or does time erase all sins?
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)It is far easier to get news and information without wasting time on msnbc.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)LovingA2andMI
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And you will have a BIG FAT STAR on the invisible whiteboard!
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Thank You Very Much!
I have given up on all the alleged talking head media.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)altho some of it is good. I did like David Axelrod's analysis, but they don't seem to want to talk about domestic violence or the treatment of women by not only these star athletes but in our general culture as well. The women's groups spokespersons are pretty scarce...
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)100's of billions in advertising. When we finally get Publicly Funded Federal, State, and Local Elections, the first thing we must have OUR REPRESENTATIVES do is to bust up the media and banking oligopolies and require TRUTH in the news!
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)do you think that would have made any difference in how Eric Cantor was as a Representative? Payday isn't always just while you are working, sometimes you have to wait for the severance package.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)I feel that we need to approach this one step at a time though. Once politicians are elected without campaign contributions we will have many more like Bernie Sanders and Elizebeth Warren and they will be better able to deal with the revolving door, climate change, busting up the oligopolies, passing a budget that shifts money away from the MIc and over to infrastructure, education....
The key and the sole focus we should have until it is passed is the Publicly Funded Elections. That opens up all of the doors to be able to deal with our other problems that the current Congress refuses to deal with such as immigration. It would also help to deal with the hyper-partisanship that we have.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)as good as anything and better than most. I agree 100%.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)The pay masters said so, ergo, its a non-story.
It could be 400,000,000 people world wide and they're not covering it without the tacit approval of 400 oil and gas executives.
Botany
(70,281 posts).... on the networks and they also buy and own politicians from both sides too.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)Just think, if it weren't for the huge Feb. 15, 2003, anti-war rally, when an estimated 36 million people took to the streets worldwide, we might have spent more than a decade embroiled in a brutal war in the Middle East.
Oh. Wait.
Never mind.
Unless it causes them reputation-damaging embarrassment, puts them in legal jeopardy, or, most importantly, loses them money, the Fat Cats will do as they please, thankyouverymuch.
valerief
(53,235 posts)doesn't surprise me in the least. We have no free press.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)They provided an opening to address the problems instead of continuing the reckless pretending we don't see them.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Today's event (Monday, 9/22)-- "Flood Wall Street"
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/21/news/economy/wall-street-climate-protest/
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/22/climate-protesters-plan-to-risk-arrest-during-flood-wall-street-sit-in
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I think the point is its not on national TV no one disputes that the internet covered it.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Who travel by limo and jet planes. Very rarely spend any time in the "real world". The real world is out there in between all the fluorescent lights and asphalt.
Those who do spend more time in reality can plainly see the effects all around them. It is how I was able to switch a few longtime Republicans to voting Democrat. They don't like seeing the home of their ancestors being ravaged by drought, storms, fires, floods and loss of biodiversity any more than most of us here. As crazy as it may sound, some of them truly do care about saving forests, rivers, lakes, oceans and wildlife they have grew up with and sharing them with the next generation.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)environment for their own kids and grandkids...but not enough seem to...
funny, saving the environment used to be "cool." What happened?
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Thus cartoon says it all. Let's not get fooled this time around. Vote Progressive not Corporatist.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)Even the Dim Son understood this in his own garbled way:
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)are the people (mostly Republicans) in Congress who keep blocking jobs bills, top tax hikes, and minimum wage increases. Both Obama and Hillary have supported those things.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)That's peanuts compared to protecting big banks and the fleecing of the treasury by military contractors pushing foreign wars and contractors here hooked on drug war dollars. Obama talks out if both sides of his mouth so at this point only actions matter. He is completely subservient to the ones that both Bush and Clinton serve. We need a progressive this time or even a progressive-lite. No more fakes or I guarantee the next decade will get very ugly.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)even though the organized promised 10 million people at their event.
UCmeNdc
(9,589 posts)Do you think they want average Joe to think or talk about important issues?
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)librechik
(30,663 posts)underpants
(182,271 posts)If you weren't watching CNN in that beautiful fall day you didn't know that at least 250,000 marched against the war in DC. If memory serves it was barely mentioned on the Sunday morning shows (back when people watched them) and not after.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)I wonder how many Americans have no idea that there was this march...
underpants
(182,271 posts)the largest protest in world history. 10-14 MILLION people took to the streets across every continent to protest the war AND say "Don't trust them" (W&Co. ). I wasn't even aware of it until a later anniversary. I must have missed DU posts about it and I usually don't miss those kind of posts. There was almost no coverage here in the States. None. Didn't happen.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)founded in 1638...been to a few myself!
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)But, yea, I am beginning to join Sarah about the Lame Stream!! Except for Cosmos and the Teddy/Franklin/Eleanor series and John Oliver!! Now you know. I hope MSNBC later in the day will give some coverage. The 2,000 events in 166 countries needs to get noticed at the U.N. tomorrow. Thank you for the post CTyankee.
Sedona
(3,769 posts)I won't repost here but there's a bunch of RW posts and tweets about a shitton of trash left in the streets after the march.
Can I get some assistance please?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)I was located near the end of the march, went the whole route and there was some debris, e.g., discarded signs and (paper) water cups along the sides. Whatever trash there was at the end where the food trucks were located, was neatly collected in containers labeled for recyclables and non-recycleables. That's IT.
underpants
(182,271 posts)The FB posts probably are counting trash that would have been there anyway.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)actually clean up (although I did put my small amount of garbage in the designated recepticle)
- I was a kind of marshall they called a "peacekeeper" - but others did volunteer for the trash duty. The amount of trash on the streets was very little considering the hordes of people that came through.
P.S.: The RW lies all the time - why would they stop now?
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)I was talking with a young guy about that yesterday when he saw someone drop a sign and leave it there, so I yelled to them, "Pick up that sign, it's your's!" and it was taken by someone who wanted to carry a sign for a while. I was taking pics on B'way and 42 St. and watched the whole thing pass.
There was no more garbage than if there would have been the normal contingent of Disneyfied tourists on a Sunday.
That Disneyfication has got to go! I remember when it was all mom and pop stores, small theaters, and a few bigger ones. In the past 20 years or so, it has just become a huge shopping mall. Yucch!
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)I was a "peacekeeper" - I was stationed way back near the end of the assembly area at 81st Street, with a walkie-talkie so I could hear what was going on up front. The march started on time at 11:30 a.m. and it took nearly THREE HOURS before the marchers could start moving at 81st street - start time for us was around 2:30p.m.. Some people left in the meantime. Some had kids with them and the kids had had enough.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)and the media outflank them X_X 400,000 people show up and nobody notices.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)and the media treats it as earth-shattering
catbyte
(34,165 posts)UVA student than it did on the climate change rallies. MSM at its worst.
locks
(2,012 posts)covered the march. If you want to see what is really happening in the world it is one of the very few places where you may find some real reporting, investigation, and going behind the headlines. (Their "Inside Report" coverage and information on Ebola and what is happening to West Africa's and world economies is not found on mainstream media.) The problem is that if you didn't see Al Jazeera's stories, you cannot always find the same information on the net. PBS Newshour also does not put their shows on the net until the next day or later.
Thanks to Democracy Now! we could see coverage on the net live streaming. But as always with mainstream media just follow the money that leads to the sponsors and who owns the channels. Is it any wonder that people elect crazy right-wingers when all they see, read, and hear is mindless, brainwashing crap?
AJ is the place where you often find real in depth reporting about stuff the corporate MSM mostly blows off. Or often BBC news. Greg Palast can't get any kind of real reporting job in the US but the BBC hired him.
We hear so little unfiltered news from the MSM. And yes, when 13 Tea Party clowns get together they're all over it and inflate the numbers, but the climate march got almost no play with thousands and thousands marching.
It harkens back to the Shrub, aka Dubya. There were huge demonstrations against his "installation" on Inaugural Day 2001, and the media verbally ignored it and blocked video shots so as not to show it. Also huge anti Iraq war rallies were totally marginalized.
"1984" is totally here in 2014.
marble falls
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in the near future climate change will be dealt with, and sooner or later no one will remember who the freak Joe of the old Morning Joe Show was. Except that an intern was found dead in his office before he left Congress soon after. Just that and that only.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)for ignoring it.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)I hope the network got the message, too, but I have some real doubts about that. But who knows, maybe they got a shitload of complaints about their arrogant avoidance of the coverage of this march. The effin' effers...
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)Rachel and Lawrence didn't mention the march. By the time their shows came on, the strike on ISIS in Syria was announced and that news took over.
I don't watch that garbage
Ino
(3,366 posts)Lori Klausutis
barbtries
(28,702 posts)even though i never, ever watch that show and in fact do not even have a tv.
there was no coverage of the march, am i correct? so yeah, i saw it.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)show up in Armpit, Ohio...Triple Chin, Tennessee....Turkey Neck, Arkansas, they get wall to wall coverage about their patriotism
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)is as saying Black Holes have strong gravitational pulls, substantive truthful information can't escape the former anymore than light can escape the latter.
The corporate media; is oblivious to the greater truth and in a default antagonistic position against the American Peoples' higher awareness just by the very nature of the beast.
Thanks for the thread, CTyankee.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)country wakes up!
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)its still a dangerous beast.
That's also why the corporate media is attacking the Internet in a multitude of ways, Net Neutrality being one example.
They're trying to put the genie back in the bottle and turn the Internet into cable television by controlling information that the people can view, using slow lanes and the dollar as a gatekeepers.
BRUTAL: 50% Decline In TV Viewership Shows Why Your Cable Bill Is So High
Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne and his team published a fascinating set of charts yesterday about the long, slow decline of old-fashioned broadcast and cable TV, and the number of ad dollars chasing the dinosaur medium.
There has been a 50 percent collapse in broadcast TV audience ratings since 2002, Swinburne says.
Part of Swinburne's case is that TV audiences have declined, but because those audiences still remain relatively large more ad dollars have continued to target them. (It's a classic "supply vs. demand" issue: as the number of big, unfragmented audiences declines, they become more valuable.)
(snip)
At Business Insider, we have disputed that. We see a generational shift, in which younger viewers don't want cable or satellite service, just wireless internet that allows them to view video on their tablets and laptops.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-50-decline-in-tv-viewership-shows-why-your-cable-bill-is-so-high-2013-1#ixzz3E5lMozpy
Quixote1818
(28,903 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)Same thing was happening with OWS. Only difference was then they would sift around for some violence, or some sidewalk mental case that was shouting some rude or obscene comments to the scattered press.
We have lost journalism any longer. We have network stories that pump up revenues. No time for important matters such as climate change. And as for Joe and Kayla...there are no different than Ed Shultz or Rachel Maddow or ANY other host on those sad cable networks. The major networks are little better. This country is fook'd. Glad I'm checking out in the next few years or decades, cause the flush has begun.