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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]WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)206. P.S. Put your money where your mouth is...
Mr. or Ms. Tens of Thousands:
POLITICO LOOKS AT AFP V. HAGAN IN NORTH CAROLINA: From todays story: The Koch brothers have a seemingly bottomless pot of cash this election year and no one knows it better than Sen. Kay Hagan.
Americans for Prosperity, a group co-founded by the conservative billionaires, has already dropped $8.2 million on TV, radio and digital ads in an effort to defeat the North Carolina Democrat. According to sources tracking media buys, the group has so far spent more in North Carolina than all Democratic outside groups in every Senate race in the country combined. ...
The people of North Carolina need to know what their agenda is, Hagan said in an interview of David and Charles Koch, the owners of the multinational manufacturing firm Koch Industries. They want to have tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy and, at the same time, put that burden on the middle class and the poor. They want to cut Medicare, Social Security. All of these issues are so, so important to the middle class. Read more here.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/12/3614885/morning-memo-north-carolina-not.html#storylink=cpy
Americans for Prosperity, a group co-founded by the conservative billionaires, has already dropped $8.2 million on TV, radio and digital ads in an effort to defeat the North Carolina Democrat. According to sources tracking media buys, the group has so far spent more in North Carolina than all Democratic outside groups in every Senate race in the country combined. ...
The people of North Carolina need to know what their agenda is, Hagan said in an interview of David and Charles Koch, the owners of the multinational manufacturing firm Koch Industries. They want to have tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy and, at the same time, put that burden on the middle class and the poor. They want to cut Medicare, Social Security. All of these issues are so, so important to the middle class. Read more here.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/12/3614885/morning-memo-north-carolina-not.html#storylink=cpy
A majority in North Carolina HATE Obamacare and they're going to take it out on Hagan. Pony up.
Lucky us, no Medicaid expansion, few companies participating in the ACA, and we *may* lose a Democratic senator!
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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