Where's all the wall to wall coverage of the protest

[rainy]

at Wall Street yesterday? The media should be all fired and we should take back OUR airwaves. This is so blatant and don't they know how differently they treat progressives and conservatives? How low can they go? One tea-partier farts and the press is all over it. We have mass protests and not a single word of recognition. I am so tire of this. What are we going to do? I write the major organizations all the time to no avail.

[CJCRANE]

1. The next protest should be outside the offices of the MSM...

then they might notice.

[socialist_n_TN]

6. I have often thought that myself

And let competing stations know which MSM HQ you're going to be at. They'll fall all over themselves to cover angry, militant protests at a competitor's place. You've got to manipulate them like they manipulate us.

[geckosfeet]

16. Should be easy - some of their Corporate HQ's are a few blocks from Wall Street.

I am often confounded by some of the things I see on DU.

I think that most DU'ers are intelligent, insightful, caring, evocative, inspirational people. But how can anyone wonder why the major networks are ignoring this? Their corporate offices are a few blocks away from Wall Street. (Except for the ones in Atlanta, 'nuff said there). Wall Street owns the media. They are essentially two sides of the same coin. To expect the media to portray this as anything except a minor inconvenience to people using the sidewalk and local traffic is beyond naive.

[rainy]

27. I'm not naive but just amazed that it continues and nothing

is done when we know nothing will change unless we fight hard for it. I wonder how bad it has to get before we've had enough.

[n2doc]

19. They should blockade the stations

That should get some attention

[Fumesucker]

2. Eh, we pretty much had to wait for Fahrenheit 911 to see the riots at the Bush inaugural..

Unless Michael Moore makes another flick I doubt we'll see much of this either.

[rainy]

3. I remember being SOOOOOOO shocked to see that in

Michael's film. This really makes my blood boil. I can't stand the injustice of it all and how much better people's lives would be if the media would do their jobs. This should be our next big take down. Nothing is gained, no power concedes, without a fight. Lets take it to the media NOW.

[rainy]

5. Lets start a list, all the things covered by the MSM for conservatives

on the right side of the page and all the things covered for the progressives on the left side starting with the Bush inauguration protests that no one ever saw. IM PISSED.

[patrice]

9. I'm still wondering how we never picked up what was going on here at the DU.

???????????????

[patrice]

14. Or maybe I just missed it. nt

[socialist_n_TN]

4. Just remember that Wisconsin started out with NO

media coverage either. In these days of MSM being owned AND ordered about by the capitalists, ANY anticapitalist demonstrations will be ignored for as long as they can ignore it. Also, even the Wisconsin protests NEVER got the coverage they deserved considering the amount of people participating.

The protestors are just going to have to keep at it day by day and it WILL build. I would suggest that NY supporters show up and stay as long as they can in order to reenforce the ones who plan on being there indefinitely. And don't do it just once. KEEP showing up in solidarity and spend the night when you can.

[patrice]

7. Here's the live video feed. Please share. & Tweet.

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

[OHdem10]

8. Did you act snarly and mean, loud and raucus, intimidating,

carry racist signs, spit on passers by????

[patrice]

10. Right on. People acting sensibly & working on consensus are NOT news.

[rainy]

12. Oh, I see, I forgot to be vile and nasty, that's how to get

attention. Silly me. So very true, what a shame.

[Shagbark Hickory]

11. CCTV (out of China) is covering it. Not "wall-to-wall" but it did get mentioned to a worldwide aud-

ience.

[patrice]

13. I heard it was on RT last night. Will check now.

[brooklynite]

15. Where's the protest?

The Daily News reports about 100 people slept in Lower Manhattan last night; hardly enough to "Occupy Wall Street". Most networks have runs story about the protest, but if the numbers aren't large enough to be significant and it the message of the protest isn't clear, I'm not surprised they're getting more press.

[librechik]

18. media didn't cover the Iraq protests, either, and millions marched around the world

they don't cover the huge protests either if they are on the left. I agree with the person who suggested we protest or sit down in front of ABC, NBC CBS and Fox and make it difficult to get in and out of the buildings there. That would get their attention.

[RegieRocker]

17. The fact you have to ask is scary.

[deminks]

20. They hid this, too.

http://www.now.org/history/slideshows/march2004/

Most people never knew it happened. Most snooze shows said nothing, or gave it a cursory coverage.

[ThoughtCriminal]

21. It's not 16 teabaggers with 20 port-o-potties

So, I'm amazed it is even mentioned.

[eShirl]

22. Funny how protests always seemed to be covered when I was a kid

Protests and marches seemed like a normal part of American life then.

[pansypoo53219]

23. the protesters are not dressed up like 'patriots' and

signs are spelled correctly, the gnews can't make fun of them AND PIMP THEM AT THE SAME TIME.

[Speck Tater]

24. A few hippies with beards and stuff had a party downtown. ho hum.

The media will show only what they want the American people to see. This worries me because if the media ignores civil protests then the protest might become less civil in order to attract attention. And when that happens then the media will not only cover the protests, but go on and on about how those terrible violent "rioters" are destroying the American way of life.

In other words, the protests will be covered ONLY when the protestors can be painted as villains, and unfortunately the protestors are going to let themselves be hoodwinked into becoming the very kind of rioters that the media can condemn.

[tsuki]

25. If it ain't the BodyBaggers, it ain't news. nt

[sufrommich]

26. In this case I'd say the media is doing the protesters a favor.

Weren't the predictions for this thing around 20,000? It looks like a couple of hundred at most and the protesters look like college kids going through their anarchist/romantic revolutionary stage. It also looks almost as white as any tea party event I've seen on TV. I'd say it's a bust, why dwell on it?