Demonstrating Bias Coverge in Political Protest
A post Over at Doug Ross @ Journal makes an excellent job of point out the discrepancy in coverage of political protest. He points to the massive amount of coverage Cindy Sheehan enjoyed when she and several other protesters went to the Crawford ranch to protest the war. Compare that over the top coverage with the yesterday reporting of the tea party protests. The coverage of the tea party protest was modest at best particularly at the national level. Why does a handful of protesters receive sustained saturated coverage for several days, while protesters close to a hundred thousand strong present in hundreds of cities receives only minor coverage.
I’m very interested in seeing how my readers more skeptical of MSM bias will explain this discrepancy.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I watched all three of the National networks coverage on the Tea Parties. 2 of the three led with the story and they all mentioned after showing some of the crowds that the majority of Americans feel their taxes are not too high (Not the point with the protests by the way). Second each mentioned that certain cable shows and conservative radio hyped all these up. One mentioned how this was all orchestrated by big corporations (kid you not). Just pathetic reporting.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:45 am
I just watched CNN’s Anderson Cooper and MSNBC where both used the phrase “teabagging” in a giggly sort of way…. I laughed hysterically.