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In reply to the discussion: There is no more “News” media: 100,000 people protested on Saturday, and we never heard about it. [View all]marions ghost
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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