Big Ed: 15,000 workers are marching in Madison Wisconson and there's no media coverage

[bigdarryl]

but let the tea party have 150 people protesting some place and ALL the media and press are all over it. I agree with him 100% this media is FUCKED UP!!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. a conspiracy of silence

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. Except the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/17wisconsin.html

[July]

24. Today's paper version has one article on page A14.

It's a quarter of a page (bottom half). Headline: " Facing Vote on Cuts, Wisconsin Democrats Vanish."

Protests are mentioned within the article, but I expected a front page story, given that the protests are continuing and getting bigger.

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. And Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/15/us-wisconsin-protests-idUSTRE71E7BY20110215

[bigdarryl]

4. I think Ed is talking about MSNBC, FOX and CNN mainly

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. Speaking of MSNBC:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41595692

[blm]

12. that's ONLINE...big difference from video broadcast in regular news rotation.

Can you remember a shortage of news cameras whenever TeaParty gathered a few hundred bodies?

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. According to DUers, MSNBC is covering it in their broadcast:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x429269

[blm]

18. that was AFTER the OP and certainly NOT to the extent still that smaller crowds of Teabags received.

And the protests have been going on for some time.

[boppers]

22. Wow, this was funny.

It's like everybody staring at the child in the corner, screaming "PAY ATTENTION TO ME", and then throwing a tantrum at not having enough attention paid to them.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. And the Associated Press:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-14/u-of-wis-madison-students-march-on-gov-s-office.html

[Kingofalldems]

15. Fail

K and R the OP

[Freddie Stubbs]

16. The Associated Press isn't part of the media?

:shrug:

[CLANG]

19. It starts out: Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and their teachers...

Hundreds? That's simply false reporting - there were thousands. And much more than students and teachers.

[bigdarryl]

7. The big guy is on this issue of the rethug Governors and idiots in Washington going after

Public Employees and Unions everyday which is good because no one speaks for us cops and Correction Officers teachers and nurses.

[Ozymanithrax]

8. This is why twitter, face book, and blogs are critical...

If they won't publicize the revolution, the revolution must publicize itself.

[liberal N proud]

9. If they don't report it, it didn't happen

Or at least no one knows it happened.

We are completely controlled by the M$M and their propaganda authors.

[WI_DEM]

10. It's true, but again the corporations own the media so they say 'big deal'

[boppers]

23. Unions are 12% of the people.

It's not like this argument affects most voters in any personal way.

[polichick]

11. Woo-hoo! Ed's guest (John Nichols?) reporting that he's getting calls from international press...

...asking if this is a U.S. version of what's happening in the Middle East.

[bigdarryl]

13. could very well turn out that way there are a lot of young people protesting in Madison

if they start hitting FACE BOOK and TWITTER all bets are off the democrats better not ignore this

[bigdarryl]

14. MSNBC just covered it BREAKING NEWS

[quaker bill]

20. It will need to be more than 15,000

and happening in more than one place. But there are plenty of places where this sort of thing could easily work. There does appear to be a concerted assault on public workers in many locales.

[Ysabel]

21. it was more than that (it was 30,000)

there will be more tomorrow and the next day and as long as it takes.

[quaker bill]

26. Here is to hoping it becomes a trend

[fittosurvive]

25. I wonder where Ed is?

This is the lead story in every news report I've seen or heard since yesterday morning.