Journalists & Lapdogs on A8 demonstrations for impeachment

[EFerrari]

Over the weekend, I noticed that apart from short reports in small local venues, A28 actions were being ignored by the lapdog media:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x781150

These two articles form an interesting contrast. The first is a hit piece that ran on Sunday in the WaPo:

Sending a Message, With Unimpeachable Clarity

By Paul Schwartzman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 29, 2007; Page A04

The protesters assembled on the Mall yesterday with a plan to voice their less-than-generous views about a certain president and his vice president. They would form a human chain to spell out I-M-P-E-A-C-H, even including an exclamation point.

But only 150 or so showed up, far fewer than the 1,000 organizers had hoped for. As their photo opportunity approached, they knew they'd be lucky to spell I-M-P.

"We're going to have to scrap the big plan," George Ripley, the protest's leader, announced. He advised his allies to rearrange everyone. They would still form I-M-P-E-A-C-H-!, he insisted, only on a tad smaller scale.

"A nightmare," a pony-tailed confederate said, shaking his head.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042800963.html


The second is from an alternative on line Daily, BeyondChron:

San Francisco Spells Out Message of Impeachment
by Ben Malley‚ Apr. 30‚ 2007



Thousands gathered at Ocean Beach Saturday morning to spell out IMPEACH NOW! in the sand with their bodies. The event was coordinated with other impeachment events nationwide on April 28, and included a Code Pink march to Nancy Pelosi’s house.

Building on the momentum from the first “Beach Impeach” event on January 7 organizers expected a turnout of between 1,500 and 2,000. The larger crowd allowed organizers to add the NOW to the original Jan. 7 message. According to event organizer Brad Newsham, the message stretched 730 feet across and 100 feet high.

At 11:00 a.m. a helicopter flew over to take aerial photographs. And after 15 minutes Newsham gave the signal, waving a green flag informing protesters to transform their message into PEACE NOW! While another organizer implored passersby to “lie down on the beach and spell out what needs to happen.”

The women of Code Pink, dressed in their colors, occupied the C. While a group dressed in orange biohazard suits made up the exclamation mark.

http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4458#more

Lapdogs, we've been in your pocketbooks and we know where you live. :)


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[demnan]

1. In DC, from the WAHOPO

Yeah, we made A-4 of the Washington Post with a very small picture, which they didn't even bother to include for the online page.

Sending a Message, With Unimpeachable Clarity

By Paul Schwartzman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 29, 2007; Page A04

The protesters assembled on the Mall yesterday with a plan to voice their less-than-generous views about a certain president and his vice president. They would form a human chain to spell out I-M-P-E-A-C-H, even including an exclamation point.

But only 150 or so showed up, far fewer than the 1,000 organizers had hoped for. As their photo opportunity approached, they knew they'd be lucky to spell I-M-P.

Want to learn more about your community? Experience your neighborhood events captured in photos, through the Washington Post Community Guides.

"We're going to have to scrap the big plan," George Ripley, the protest's leader, announced. He advised his allies to rearrange everyone. They would still form I-M-P-E-A-C-H-!, he insisted, only on a tad smaller scale.

"A nightmare," a pony-tailed confederate said, shaking his head

More:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042800963.html

[EFerrari]

2. No mention of all the other actions, including in KANSAS.

Why write a story about an event that didn't really happen according to this "coverage"? Lapdogs.

[meldroc]

3. The Washington Post story seemed to go out of its way to pooh-pooh the protesters.

Saying they were "less than generous" towards Bush, and going on and on about how too few people showed up and they had to scale things down.

That's right, according to the news droids, it's not a massive grass-roots national movement, it's just a few kooks on TV who can't get anyone to show up.

[demnan]

5. Yeah - combine this with Dana Milbank's snark

on Dennis Kucinich last week and you have the pompous arrogant WaHOPO at it's worst.

[EFerrari]

6. I ratted the WaHo out to Media Matters. Hope they look into it.

For now, we have to be the media and send our images out.

Tonight, I'm going to put a bunch up at my little site and pimp the link.

Work it, demnan. :)

[EFerrari]

4. kick