Dakota Access Blackout Continues on ABC, NBC News

[G_j]

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/23/dakota-access-blackout-continues-abc-nbc-news

The Sacred Stone Camp established by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota has brought together thousands of demonstrators in opposition to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172-mile conduit designed to carry some 200 million barrels of crude oil per year from fracking fields in North Dakota to Southern Illinois. An unprecedented coalition of hundreds of Native American tribes has faced down attack dogs and pepper spray in defense of sacred and historic sites, irreplaceable water resources and the planet’s climate.

The action has won the support of environmental groups, some labor activists and numerous celebrities, and has halted pipeline construction at least temporarily. The Obama administration issued a statement calling for a work stoppage and saying, “This case has highlighted the need for a serious discussion on whether there should be nationwide reform with respect to considering tribes’ views on these types of infrastructure projects.”

Nevertheless, to this day, ABC News and NBC News have yet to broadcast a word about the pipeline struggle, according to searches of the Nexis news database.

FAIR noted on September 7 that CBS, alone of the three major broadcast news networks, had aired anything on Dakota Access—and that was a lone report on CBS Morning News (9/5/16), amounting to 48 words read at 4 o’clock in the morning. Since then, CBS has returned to the story repeatedly—including two medium-sized reports on the network’s flagship news show, CBS Evening News (9/8/16, 9/10/16).

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[ghostsinthemachine]

1. Complete blackout, roadblocks etc

No internet out since Wednesday a week ago.no Facebook posts since, except old stories or new stories but not from the site itself.

One report, from last weekend, was that 40+ were arrested, then denied their rights to call attorneys because the attorneys were not ND licensed. Not a peep since. Check out local media

[G_j]

3. it appears they hope to crush the movement

essentially, just as OWS was crushed, with the help of the media blackout.

[yellerpup]

2. They both run ads for 'energy voters.'

Maybe that figures in.