So, I'm sitting here at work and checked out the newsfeed...... AP has two stories

[HEyHEY]

On it's wire about Wisconsin. All day only two stories. I don't know if that's because they only put two on the international service or not. Reuters had four. I thought there would be at least 10 considering all the rallies elsewhere. This movement is not getting the press it deserves. It's absolutely inexcusable.

I know that demonstrations are hard to keep in the paper. We know the issues, there's a big mass of people and that doesn't change. But, surely there's tons of related issues and stories that could be expanded upon. Really bad c- grade for the media on this.

[Kurovski]

1. at this stage of the game I'd say anyone not getting their news from the internet,

is tardy to the party.

The one-note teashagger meatia makes everyone 100% more stupid than ever before.

It's only purpose is for comedians to get material.

[HEyHEY]

2. Except most of the internet is getting their news from AP and such

Lots of it is just links, or downright plagerized.

[Kurovski]

3. there's that. And then there is all the reporting that citizens are doing.

people staring at the TEEVEE don';t see the magnitude of protests all across the U.S.

Reading caterina's twitter compilations make what's happening in Libya very real. I didn't see the extent of mayhem Qwadaffy is causing on any 4 minute abc report, eVER. No one in my neighborhood has any idea whatsofuckingever of the magnitude of what is happening all over the world. None.

[Kurovski]

4. Most americans don't see Al Jazeera on the teevee, nor read it. Most can only

read foreign press on line.

[Kurovski]

5. This isn't to say people shouldn't do both if they can

We have to keep you employed, to be sure. :-)

[Syrinx]

6. we even had a couple hundred people show at the state capitol in Montgomery

I know that's not that many people, but it's more than I expected.

They had a piece on the local Birmingham news, but damn if I can find anything online.

[Kurovski]

19. You just reported it online now.

[Le Taz Hot]

7. MILLIONS took to the streets

during the IWR debates and we got almost no coverage. When we did get coverage, they'd underreport the number of people attending. If 5,000 people showed up, they'd report 500.

[kevinbgoode]

8. There is no excuse...and neither do the broadcast networks

Madison is not a small-market town - they have affiliates with ready feeds to the networks. As for AP, every state capital city in the country has an Associated Press reporter assigned, I'm sure.

The tell-tale signs were the national media's absolute silence for the first three days. This media will sniff out two teabaggers with signs on a street corner in Hooterville and get them on the national news, but they couldn't notice 10k+ people marching against a governor and a legislature for three days. They had reports from multiple locations in the Middle East about their protests, and nothing about our own.

[Kurovski]

9. I thought Hooterville filed for bankruptcy.

isn't that the town Kim Basinger bought?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

10. Consider who owns the media: the same corprats who...

...want the unions busted. It's not just the Koch Brothers who own and control our media, our government, our elections, and our judiciary. It's ALL of them.

Consider that, and your question is answered.

[GoCubsGo]

14. You beat me to it.

They ignored the hundreds of thousands who protested the election theft of 2000. And, they ignored the hundreds of thousands that protested the Iraq War. I don't know why anyone would think it should be different here.

[siligut]

16. The god-awful truth it is

Now you've done it.

[barbtries]

11. you're too generous.

it should have been leading the day. here in nc every story i've seen or read has taken pains to include the vastly outnumbered teabaggers across the street - they don't have near the numbers but they get equal time. it's sick.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Fortunately, our Kansas media ignored our THREE teabags

About 1500 of us showed up in Topeka and there were THREE teabags.

Loved it!

[barbtries]

13. yeah i looked at your thread

it was great :hi:

[Vinca]

15. All the Wisconsin protesters need to do is staple teabags to their hats.

Satellite trucks would be lined up and news anchors would be begging for interviews.

[WhiteTara]

17. maybe we should go in covered in teabags and then

after we have the media attention, throw them to the ground and remind them we too, are the People.

[Frustratedlady]

18. They may think this isn't important, but remember the thousands who do.

Those thousands/hundreds of thousands will be irate that more coverage wasn't provided. (I was most upset with MSNBC for not having coverage.) Perhaps they thought out-of-sight, out-of-mind, but they were wrong. Now, those thousands/hundreds of thousands will go home, complain to their family members, friends and neighbors and the media will come out looking like fools, not the marchers.

My hat is off to those who braved the cold, rain and snow to attend. I only wish I could have attended. I was there in spirit and watched/read the proceedings on the Net.

Remember...the media AND government fear THE PEOPLE more than we fear them. Without us, they wouldn't be.