So... the Crisis in Japan knocks Wis out of the media almost Entirely?

[wowimthere]

Let me be clear here. What happened in Japan was devastating. It is a catastrophe of major proportions and I grieve for the people there. It is major news and deserves the level of attention it is getting.

That said... This weekend also saw 10s of thousands of protesters voicing opposition to another travesty in this country - Walker's illegal union busting bill. Why didn't we see the throngs of people flooding Wisconsin's capital? Why didn't we hear that the numbers put tea baggers to shame? We saw the media's brazen defense of tea party rallies that drew only a small percentage of the crowd in Madison but barely a picture of the events in Wisconsin. Why?

I didn't see any meaningful mention of protest or crowd size in what would be considered "media". Huffingtonpost! MSNBC! NBC! ABC! CBS! Where were you? I got more coverage about O'Keeffe and NPR than I got of the protest in Wisconsin. What happened in Wisconsin reverberates through our entire nation as Republican governors are poised to strip all public sector workers of their rights to bargain.

That the Huffingtonpost was bought by AOL taught me something. Money does buy silence.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It was hardly in the media in the first place.

[vroomvroom]

13. +1 --> MSM and the WH are thankful they can now hide it entirely.

[Raine1967]

15. You seem to conflate what this poster said,

You were the one who said the WH. The poster did not say that.

[Raine1967]

14. was going to say nearly the same.

Aside from Progressive radio, Twitter and for myself, Facebook -- it was barely a blip anywhere. ESPECIALLY on TV.

[backscatter712]

2. The right-wing subhumans are celebrating.

They were afraid that that latest news about Charlie Sheen picking his nose couldn't flood enough of the news cycle to keep things like Wisconsin from breaking out.

[jobycom]

3. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, what did you think of the play?

Seriously?

[demwing]

4. Give the media a break

these two took the week off...

[wowimthere]

5. lol

[snagglepuss]

6. Like another poster the media wasn't covering before this. I think progressives

have to seriously start thinking about having protests in front of media headquarters instead of govt buildings.

[OmahaBlueDog]

7. Ummm...

This morning on MSNBC there were interviews with one of the returning Dem senators. Over the weekend, due to a circomstance beyond my control, I was forced to watch FAUX, and they were showing fairly extensive coverage of Wisconsin.

If you wrote a screenplay for a disaster film in which there was a massive, destructive earthquake, followed by a devastating tsumami, and then moving toward not one, but two (maybe three) catastrophic nuclear failures -- each of which rivals Three Mile Island, I think Hollywood agents would say you were stretching credibility. I don't think it's unfair to say that Wisconsin has had to compete with one of the most mind boggling disasters in human history.

[Wait Wut]

12. +1

And a volcano eruption.

Thousands of people missing.

Human tragedy.

I was able to keep up with the news in Wisconsin without a problem. I even shared several links with friends and family.

[OHdem10]

8. Keep it ALIVE on the Internet. Post stories about all the protests

from Wisconsin, Idaho , Missouri, Two big rallies in Texas,
one in Dallas and orget the other city. Here are the big
ones I recall off the top of my head.

Repost pictures from the rallies. Keep them moving 24/7.
There are people who read sites with out ever joining.

Do not wait for the MSM.

[Blue Owl]

9. M$M -- we put The "Man" in "Manufactured"

n/t

[27inCali]

10. this tragedy is mana from heaven for the wicked

the distraction will not last long though.

[blm]

11. 10s of thousands is what MSM wants repeated - it was over 200,000 protestors in Wisconsin Saturday

.

[vaberella]

16. Now imagine if Obama got involved in WI?! Didn't you see the Charlie Sheen thing?!

That was a media circus for a week and it's still going on now. If Obama got involved---we'd hear nothing about WI and the workers fight, but all about Obama. The MSM is a piece of shit that would do anything to shut the fight of the people out. We need to raid the MSM.

[AngryAmish]

17. It is a much bigger story

It is our job to get Wisco back in the news again when things have calmed down in Japan.

[be_long]

18. nothing irritates, infuriates and intimidates

found some great pix at the du and kos, don't know bout the rest of you, but I post on the local paper, nothing, and I mean nothing irritates, infuriates and intimidates the right like story's from the dairy-land, it truly is US against the corporatist s -millionaires/billionaires, (the wealthy union) all inclusive in the r-tpublican party, post on.

[AtomicKitten]

19. WI can't be knocked out of the MSM because they weren't covering it anyway.

[rasputin1952]

20. Comparatively, even before the tragedy that struck Japan...

WI was far from anything the MSM covered in much detail. Most coverage was on cable news, with some small blurbs in the national network news.

Print media did a better job, but few actually read the news any more outside of major cities. In truth, we even see how people do not read much if any of the links provided here, it is the 4 paragraph synopsis that garners attention and even though DU'ers are far more informed and educated than the general population, in most cases, people post before reading the article linked.

What is happening in WI and other states is extremely important, but the Japanese tragedy involves destruction on a magnitude we rarely see or hear of. Competition for news resources and the magnitude of the disaster places the earthquake in a more newsworthy position for the TV audience, which relies on visual effectiveness to compete.

While, in my opinion, what happened in WI and Japan are both disasters disasters, a 30 foot wall of unrelenting water will trump just about everything this side of an asteroid impact.

[slackmaster]

21. Unrec for manifesting a persecution complex and inappropriate negative reaction to perceived slight

:nuke: