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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 09:16 PM
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10. If a 1,000,000 come the MSM will call them 100,000. If its 10 million
they will say it was a million. The only reason the so called Million Man March got full coverage was because the right wing faction of the MSM thought it was a good way to mobilize the racist base by giving them nightmares of a race riot. Every other left wing protest in recent years has gotten downplayed in the press.

You would never have guessed from the coverage of Jan 2001 how many people were in DC to protest the first inaguaration, many of them first timers who came in small groups on buses. They outnumbered supporters. But they got almost no press.

I hope the people planning to be in DC this time have some theater planned, because it is going to take that to get media attention. I mean serious theatre as in getting Wynona Ryder to strip for Democracy, that kind of thing.

Im gonna be in New Orleans for the Jazz Funeral for Democracy. I figure it has as much chance of getting coverage as the protests in DC.
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