Blackout By William Rivers Pitt

[helderheid]

Blackout
By William Rivers Pitt

Saturday 24 September 2005 5:11 PM

I am receiving reports from a variety of sources that this march has been virtually blacked out by the television media. CNN threw that big number out earlier, and Headline News made mention of it, but that's all. The hurricane is dominating the news, and even C-SPAN has Generals on talking about predicting hurricanes and storm response.

As frustrating as this is, I can understand it. Rita was a bad storm, made all the worse by Katrina. The oil infrastructure just took a beating, and water is flowing back into New Orleans. Besides, these TV yahoos have never covered these protests with any kind of accuracy or interest before, so why should today be any different?

Psssst...we are the majority now.

I am going to find some food and check out for a bit. I will report in if something significant happens.

[LiberalEsto]

1. The Takoma Park local cable channel will cover it

for Montgomery County folks with Comcast. At least, they usually do.
Whoopie.:sarcasm:

[DS1]

2. Blitzed, by DS1

Wolf Blitzer is still an asshole.

[jwirr]

3. I understand why the hurricane would have been a priority

and can just hear they bitch if it had been ignored for the march. However, is our media so fragile that they cannot report on more than one issue? Issues of importance could appear on three issues: Iraq War, RITA and the huge war protest in DC and across the world. Instead they had a bunch of little topics that needed discussing. One of my biggest disappointments is that none of our alternative blogs did pictures like they did in the earlier marches.

[Imagevision]

4. true, but points were certainly made today and they know it

because of the real numbers being whispered into Bush/Roves ears...!

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Rove will have the real numbers, but bubble boy won't.

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