NBC Nightly News LYING About Wisconsin protests

[Vinnie From Indy]

NBC Nightly News led tonight's newscast with the protests in Madison. They offered that there were 70,000 people at the protest. Where they injected complete bullshit was their coverage of the Teabaggers. They NEVER mentioned that there were only a handful of TEabaggers supporting Gov. Walker. Their camera shots of the Teabaggers were very tight making it seem as though there were alot of people. In short, they made it SEEM as though the groups were similar in size. Their coverage was not lazy or an accident. They obvioulsy wanted viewers that are not infomred to think that two equal sized groups squared off in Madison.

[spanone]

1. the enemy is the media....no way to get a fair shake when they own the cameras & microphones

[Iris]

2. well, yeah - haven't you heard? That's the new fair and balanced

Always act like the opposite side is equal and valid no matter how few of them there are. Look at global warming? How many scientists actually believe it's not happening? And yet, they are treated as if they are equal to the 100s of scientists who believe the evidence says the opposite!

[kevinbgoode]

20. Unless, of course, the "other side" happens to not be

conservative - then they are barely mentioned and, if they are, soundly ridiculed and dismissed as irrelevant.

There is no excuse for the extremely poor showing of our national media of this news event.

[Bozita]

3. Their Comcast owners are proud of their purchase.

[Tesha]

4. By comparison, ABC didn't exactly "lie".

They just omitted the truth, giving the usual Mass
Media bullshit spin that both sides were somehow
equally represented.

And they gave all the audio quotes to the 'Baggers.

Not exactly a lie, but nowhere near "the truth".

Tesha

[Vinnie From Indy]

14. No, that is a lie

A lie of ommission. In many respects, it is even more insidious than a bald-faced, in your face lie.

[undeterred]

5. I was there today and I really don't believe there were 70K people.

I am watching NBC and I don't think they said how many teapartiers there were. I thought about 10% of the people I saw were supporting Walker. It doesn't surprise me that NBC is giving both sides of this.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Giant Corporate Oligolopy Comcast Unfairly Representing Labor Struggle

No shit.

[Cleita]

7. Well Al Jazeera just had a report on Wisconsin and

they called the teabaggers Governor Walker supporters. They said that the protestors vastly outnumbered the Governor Walker supporters. I guess you know who to watch. Al Jazeera can be streamed here:

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Too bad M$NBComcast doesn't run on weekends because at least Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz are getting the reports right and contrary to their affiliate NBComcast

[The Wielding Truth]

8. Comcast versus unions. That's why consolidation of media is bad for democracy.

[Bozita]

9. ABC Evening News did the same thing, tight shots and all!

[rusty charly]

10. CBS's Cynthia Bowers

did her report surrounded by Tea Bags proudly holding their signs on air for the duration of her report.

[somone]

11. GE & Comcast don't care much about unions

[Tesha]

23. Actually, they care *A LOT* about unions; they want them eliminated! (NT)

[City Lights]

12. NBC=corporate media=part of the problem.

:thumbsdown: to the corporate media.

[AsahinaKimi]

13. I been watching CNN

so far no coverage, but watching Wolf Blitzer in North Korea.

[Luminous Animal]

15. The media did similar with anti/pro war protests when Bush I bombed the crap out of Iraq.

[glinda]

16. Petition time people. Someone in WI that was there needs to start one

demanding they retract and correct their reporting on this event.

[grahamhgreen]

17. Of course.

[Jack Rabbit]

18. The MSM lie?

Please click here.

I haven't seen this kind of solidarity from the MSM since the run up to the Iraq war. Once again, they're all Fox News.

[AsahinaKimi]

19. CNN

barely covered it.

[WCGreen]

21. One has to wonder if the Egyptian state press covered the pro Mubarak

protests....

[Carolina]

22. NBC = nothing but crap

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Nile TV and these guys have a LOT in common

[ebbie15644]

25. ABC

did the same!!!