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Showing Original Post only (View all)There is no more “News” media: 100,000 people protested on Saturday, and we never heard about it. [View all]
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/there-is-no-more-news-media-100000-people-protested-on-saturday-and-we-never-heard-about-it/"That is a picture of around one hundred-thousand people marching through Raleigh this past Saturday, protesting a whole raft of screw-everybody-but-rich-white-male-Repub laws that are being foisted upon the populace by North Carolinas 100% Teapublican government. And here is a link to more such pictures. Oh, and here is another link to a local report.
And did you hear about this on the national news programs, Gentle Reader? No, you did not. You heard about the Olympics, various celebrity peccadillos, a politicians 1990?s sex life, and lots of finger-pointing tripe from Congress.
It is apparently too much to expect our Infotainment industry to cover a huge grass-roots march by ordinary people, asking for ordinary things, in an ordinary way. You see, the news media is no longer about news, and hasnt been since the 1970?s. The Reaganistas deregulated the media , making truth play second fiddle to profits. Second fiddle, Hell, they made truth a friggin understudy. Ratings and ad revenue determine what gets played on TeeVee news programs these days.
The only way for a citizens protest to get shown on national media would be to add a professional celebrity: have a Kardashian get a divorce during the march, or perhaps have Miley Cyrus twerking on a wrecking ball at the head of the march. Something shallow and meaningless to attract the journalists, and once they have taken the bait, the marchers force them to listen to, and then report on, something substantial, something that people actually need to know.
Because as of now, the lives and concerns of ordinary Americans are guaranteed not to be broadcast on the news".
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There is no more “News” media: 100,000 people protested on Saturday, and we never heard about it. [View all]
riqster
Feb 2014
OP
"First they just undercount your numbers, then they ignore, you whats next?"
BelgianMadCow
Feb 2014
#177
You do not know, and nobody knows, what would have happened had acted differently.
riqster
Feb 2014
#81
So how would you recommend that protests get the attention of the media? nm
rhett o rick
Feb 2014
#88
I am not sure where exactly that would be but they would still ignore it. nm
rhett o rick
Feb 2014
#178
Respectfully, putting the corporate-media on notice is like putting Exxon on notice.
rhett o rick
Feb 2014
#196
That was a small amount of the total who marched. They've been marching for months, and did so
okaawhatever
Feb 2014
#19
We have 316 million freakin' neighbors in this country. That we know of. This could just...
jtuck004
Feb 2014
#16
If all Californians traveled to North Carolina to attend one march, I think the earth might
JDPriestly
Feb 2014
#38
We all have different standards. 100K is just a little larger than the crowd at the Super Bowl.
jtuck004
Feb 2014
#72
California, Massachusetts, Vermont and a few other states are in the lead when it comes to
JDPriestly
Feb 2014
#113
Just remember, when you're with most Democrats, YOU'RE the troll...
ConservativeDemocrat
Feb 2014
#195
And of course detach from corporate investments. The single, most effective thing you can do.
raouldukelives
Feb 2014
#128
"foisted upon the populace by North Carolina’s 100% Teapublican government. "
BlancheSplanchnik
Feb 2014
#39
If 20 Tea Party members had a protest it would be all over the Major News Outlets
LynneSin
Feb 2014
#40
"The only way for a citizen’s protest to get shown on national media would be..."
hvn_nbr_2
Feb 2014
#45
It was Nader's documented cooperation with the Repubes that turned me against him, so maybe.
riqster
Feb 2014
#137
If 100 Tea Party stooges gathered to demand cuts to social programs, it would be a front page story.
Marr
Feb 2014
#82
It's a local/state story...like it or not. These people aren't amorphously protesting, they are,
MADem
Feb 2014
#174
Well, the OP is claiming that "the media" didn't cover this story, and it is just not true.
MADem
Feb 2014
#182
Liberals who are interested in this story will go to MSNBC, where it is well-covered.
MADem
Feb 2014
#193
It's not national news yet....it will be, eventually. It's still a local/regional story.
MADem
Feb 2014
#183
Yes, that has been covered, on the NC news outlets and in the regional pages of the newspapers.
MADem
Feb 2014
#190
Just like we never heard the massive antiwar protests. Censorship, "democracy" style. nt
valerief
Feb 2014
#166
This was a regional/state story, and it was covered BEFORE and AFTER on television.
MADem
Feb 2014
#170
This should be news. But more important is...why DID the people of NC give the Tea Party such power?
TroglodyteScholar
Feb 2014
#203