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Memekiller Donating Member (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-31-07 08:21 AM
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Journalism Prof: Anti-War Protests Ignored by MSM
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Here's an interview with an Emerson Professor who wrote an Op-Ed for the Christian Science Monitor chastizing the lack of media coverage of the recent anti-Iraq War marches:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/10/30/publiceye/entry3432008.shtml
I think if you have a national day of protest -- which I read had a fairly modest turnout but still approached 100,000 when you combine the numbers for all the places nationwide – planned for weeks in advance. And when it’s been written about in alternative media sites like commondreams.org. It’s a bit eerie when there’s absolute silence in the traditional media about it. How can people make a decision without information? How can people, if you will, even counter-demonstrate if no information is out there?

How can the traditional newsmedia complain and whine that they’re losing their readership and viewership if they’re not covering news that (A) affects a lot of people and (B) a lot of people are participating in.
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