NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGES: Did your paper cover the march?

[Atman]

I'm beyond disgusted. I believe this totally lays bare the right wing media bias once and for all. When combined with the fact that CNN's new six-panel split-screen graphics didn't have room for even a postage-stamp update, the dicussion is over...

The Hartford Courant (a RW Knight-Ridder paper) had no mention of the protest on it's front page. On page two it ran a story with an obfuscatory headline mentioning people attempting to have their voices heard -- no mention of "PROTEST" or "100,000" or anything to draw your attention to the story. It ran with a relatively small picture of a very small segment of the crowd, showcasing a "typical" shirtless hippy. While the caption said the parks service expected 100,000 people, the article only said "tens of thousands." Right below it, with equal weight and just as many column inches, ran a story with the headline "200 Show Opposition To War Protest."

On the facing page was a LARGER story about a reggea fest at Mohegan Sun casino. I kid you not.

This is bullshit. We got Aaron Brown to at least acknowledge that people were in DC. It's time for letter writing/boycotts of all rw media and their advertisers. How we do that, that's another matter.

[madeline_con]

1. "... six-panel split-screen ..."

Like Faux's annoying graphics and sound effects. :eyes:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. Yes, actually, on page

A3; the article took up about a half a page... only mention I saw, though...

[Atman]

3. Page A3, not page A1

100,000 to 300,000 angry protesters surround the capitol of the free world, and it's relegated to A3. That is not a "well, yes." It is a resounding NO.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. Okay, then,

but it's better than nothing. Just trying to be a little positive.

[Atman]

7. "Just trying to be a little positive."

I can appreciate that.

However, I think our silly optimism is part of what is killing us. We keep expecting the right to act as "real" humans would act, to be rational because we'd be rational. All the while they're simply laughing at our naive little selves and taking another shit right on our collective heads.

But I do thank you for the ray of hope. I have to admit, after yesterday I'm a little short of same.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Yes, I do admit

to naive optimism sometimes. But I do think that it is better than nothing, and I AM still pissed at the flucking M$M for the brush-off they gave it.

[ultraist]

5. Newspaper front pages

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

Rita captured the headlines for most papers, it seems.

[WillyT]

18. Rita Did, But The March Was Next To It Here !!!

Could be the same for many other papers.

:shrug:

[WillyT]

19. LA Times Has A Picture On Front, Story On A22...

:shrug:

[WillyT]

20. Oakland Trib Has It...

:bounce:

[WillyT]

22. And The SF Chronicle...

:bounce:

[cassiepriam]

6. What march? Does that answer your question??

Nothing, except small story buried in the depths of the paper.
Ohio.

[zbird]

9. South Bend Tribune.... Ran a picture with caption on page A6.

Not even an article in the Michigan edition of the paper. The picture is of Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cindy Sheehan. Caption reads:

"Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, center, shares a moment with the Rev. Jesse Jackson during a protest march Saturday in Washington. The surging crowd, shouting "Bush out now" and "Peace now," marched in front of the White House and then to the Washington monument in an 11-hour marathon of dissent."

Not a single mention of the size of the crowd at all.

The on-line edition is not much better. It uses the blurb: "More than 2,000 people gathered on the Ellipse hours before the showcase demonstration past the White House, the first wave of what organizers said would be the largest Washington rally since the war began."

But, there is a nice 1/6 page, with picture, article of the Dark Prince's aneurysm surgery on page A8.

BTW, the front page is about Rita and an article about a Tribune staff writer's battle with oral cancer.

[buff2]

10. HUGE front page picture and headlines here

in Columbus Ohio....about the HURRICANE. Not one little tiny mention of the march on the front page. I haven't looked at the rest of the paper yet. I'm trying to find my magnifying glass. :grr:

[etherealtruth]

11. Detroit News and Free Press

Nothing in the first few sections ... this from my search before my morning coffee. If there's a story it is well hidden

[Occulus]

14. Kalamazoo Gazette says

"over 100,000 protesters", doesn't mention the actual size, and stresses the 100 area protesters who went there.

Page B-1. The article about the biker club changing its image had a nice, big color photo and held the center of the page, under an article about the resignation of the head of the local taxpayer's association.

Disgusting. It's a good thing I get it with rent or I probably wouldn't want it in the first place.

[chelsea0011]

12. Boston Globe.........page 6A. Hey, at least it is in the news section.

[Alamom]

13. Birmingham News....1/3 page on 5A

100,000 gather in Washington to decry war in Iraq
Sunday, September 25, 2005
GIGI DOUBAN
News staff writer
More than 100,000 people showed up Saturday in Washington, D.C. to protest the war in Iraq, making it the largest antiwar protest in the nation's capital since the U.S. invasion.

Similar events were held in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris and other European cities.

The Birmingham rally at Kelly Ingram Park began with a march downtown, with some beating hand drums and others holding signs such as "G.W.B. is a W.M.D.," "Osama bin Forgotten" and "Stop Mad Cowboy Disease."


In Washington, speakers from the stage attacked President Bush's policies head on, but he was not at the White House to hear it. He spent the day in Colorado and Texas, monitoring hurricane recovery.


http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1127640474114720.xml&coll=2&thispage=1


(a real surprise)

[zalinda]

15. Syracuse Post-Standard

Pic and small paragraph on front page, above the fold. Almost full page inside on page 20. Says 200,000 showed up.

zalinda

[DancingBear]

16. Washington Post - excellent coverage

Front page, plus follow-up human-interest type stories.

Very good.

[ohio_liberal]

17. Yes, sort of

I don't get the paper version anymore. The online version of our local newspaper picks up stories from other sources.


http://www.oweb.com/news/story/0925202005_new04.asp

[Mutley]

21. My town has it.

The Baltimore Sun. On the actual paper it's on the bottom from page; the website it's in the Nation/World section.

[cascadiance]

23. Mixed results here in San Diego news outlets on the local rally here...

Union Tribune did a pretty reasonable account of what happened here:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050925-9999-1m25protest.html

but the NC Times / XETV (Fox TV affiliate) ran a story that is completely fallacious, basically giving the readers the impression that there were equal amounts of pro-war protestors alongside anti-war protestors, when most people attending were hard pressed to even find one to a handful of pro-war protestors anywhere close to the rally and marches. They deserve a slew of letters demanding better news coverage and not to be lying to us about what is going on around us!

http://www.fox6.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=37C9C915-17C3-4AF3-BD08-295D57CE2AA4

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/09/25/news/sandiego/20_12_149_24_05.txt

[troubleinwinter]

24. A-6 Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Northern Calif. (owned by NYT)

It was the Washington Post story.

Front page: Rita, Gas Prices, Economy.

Cheney's Surgery- page A-4.

[OhioChick]

25. Surprisingly shocked here.........

The Cleveland Plain Dealer had it on the front page!

[ignatius 2]

26. Nope,the Indianapolis Star,a right wing rag,had it on

the third page. It was interesting though that apparently the police chief in DC said that it seemed as if 100,000 war protesters were there and only a couple of hndred Bushbots..they were expecting 10,000..LOL.

[Mari333]

27. nothing in my paper.

[bluedog]

28. St Pete Times Florida did.A section.page 3 or 4

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/25/Worldandnation/Thousands_rally_again.shtml

[helderheid]

29. Salt Lake Tribune

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4880890&mesg_id=4880890

[ikojo]

30. Oh but I thought in light of Katrina the media was

finally seeing the light......

:sarcasm:

They are of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.

[kma3346]

31. Yes, but.....

The Sunday Mercury News had it on the first page (not the headline story). I felt like they played down the numbers by referring to the protesters as "tens of thousands." I guess I should be happy that at least it was on page 1!

My mom called me last night because she and my dad were so disgusted that absolutely nothing appeared on any of their local news stations about the protest. She said that my dad called NBC to complain. I told them about DU and they had been reading about the protest all day, and were shocked and upset when they turned on their news that night and did not hear a single mention about it. ARGHHH!
:argh:

Big protest against war surrounds White House

CROWD'S MESSAGE COMPETES WITH GULF COAST STORM NEWS

By Jim Puzzanghera

Mercury News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of demonstrators -- a diverse swarm of veteran peace activists and first-time protesters -- marched around the White House on Saturday and rallied within its earshot in hopes of sending a resounding message to President Bush and the nation: End the Iraq war and bring the troops home.

"I haven't known what to do with my rage and impotence about all the horrors," said Mary McCutcheon, 57, a registered nurse from San Francisco who flew to Washington on Friday night to participate in her first protest since the war began in 2003. "People are just starting to stand up and speak up."

Organizers estimated the crowd at more than 300,000, but that could not be confirmed. Washington police do not make official crowd estimates, although Chief Charles Ramsey said a figure of at least 150,000 was "as good a guess as any."

In San Francisco, thousands of protesters packed Dolores Park for an anti-war rally, one of several California demonstrations. An estimated 15,000 people turned out in Los Angeles.

Although the demonstrators chanted loudly during a day of rallies, marches and musical performances nationwide, it wasn't clear how many people heard them. Hurricane Rita was pounding Texas and Louisiana, dominating television news.

For the entire article, see:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12737681.htm

[tomg]

32. We got a page B2 couple of paragraphs

taken from the AP wire service in our local paper. What a joke. And this from a relatively small upstate New York county that sent six packed busses, a couple more caravans from local colleges, and innumerable individual car loads. ( One of the coolest things was that we ran into our local judge there ). Oh, and there were local demonstrations of solidarity ( none mentioned).
In some ways I find this strange because normally our local news papers is very solid on coverage of demonstrations. Today, zilch on the talk shows. Granted there are Katrina and Rita, but a virtual news blackout is still very odd. Maybe the MSM only likes things critical of Bush when they are doing the critcizing.

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