The World People's Conference on Climate Change is being ignored

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these are just my observations...

Bolivia this week is hosting a "World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth".

I've been doing some searches to see what kind of coverage the mainstream press is giving to the conference. Remember all the focus on the Copenhagen talks? Organizations from 150 nations are expected to attend this week's conference in Boliva, so you might reasonably think, if there really was a free and truthful press in the U.S., that there would be significant coverage of the event. Not necessarily as much coverage as Copenhagen, but ... something should be out there, right?

Here is what I have found:

The Huffington Post, BBC, and AFP each have a single article mentioning the conference.

That's it that I can find so far.

Nothing from CNN, nothing from FoxNews, nothing on NPR. Almost a complete blackout of coverage. I would expect FoxNews to eventually dig something up from the event which they can spin and use to tarnish someone's reputation, but even that much I'm not so sure about.

The only logical conclusion is that the decision makers at major media outlets do not want U.S. citizens to know about this event. It's plain and simple. We can ask the question why and debate about that much, but there is no question that they are in fact blacking this story out.

Just have a look for yourselves -

A search of CNN for the words World People's Conference:
http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=World%20People's%20Conference&sortBy=date

search of FoxNews for the same words:
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?&q=World%20People's%20Conference%20on%20Climate=docdatetime

You can try searching for Bolivia, too. Nothing comes up about this week's conference. Nada.

search of NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/search/index.php?searchinput=World+People's+Conference+on+Climate&tabId=all&sort=date

Oh, wait, there's something on NPR! the 4th result down I see mention of it in an Associated Press article they have posted. Open the article, and find the very last paragraph: "Bolivia is holding a grass-roots World Peoples Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth on April 19-22, with the aim of presenting an alternative agenda for consideration by U.N. climate delegates."

So, I know this isn't exactly a study that meets the highest of standards - still, I think FoxNews, CNN, and NPR represents a fair cross-section to start out from (anyone that disagrees, by all means, find another Western news source and post your results).

The conclusion, again, I think is fairly obvious. They just don't want us to know. They, specifically referring to those who decide what stories are fit for consumption in Western mass media outlets. Now we should ask the question - why is that??