Few Sundays ago we had wall to wall live coverage of protests in Egypt on every cable news channel

[NNN0LHI]

The media was falling all over themselves to bring us live coverage. Remember?

Today nothing from Wisconsin. Right now on CNN they are showing tapes of Sea Turtles and 8th Graders. MSNBC is showing old tape of Caught On Camera. Forget Fox.

Wonder why that is?

Don

[Little Star]

1. Makes ya wonder don't it? k&r

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Oh yeah.........I wonder too. NOT.

It's quite all right for democracy to emerge in faraway lands...

And for our media to cover it. After all, it sells TV time and newspapers.

But for us to agitate for our rights here? Not good for the powers that be, not good at all...

We must not shake up our corporate masters.

Recommended.

[suffragette]

7. + 1,000

Perfectly stated.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Thank you!

[lob1]

3. This is the most important story in the U.S., and our

news refuses to cover it. Time to break up the media monopolies. Their lack of coverage really shows our lack of democracy.

[underpants]

6. Last week I saw live footage from Libya on MSNBC and Fox

CNN reported on Wisconsin with a still picture of the reporter and a map with an arrow showing WHERE Madison is.

Tough to get footage from Madison WISCONSIN huh?

:eyes:

[lob1]

8. I just read a survey that says most reporters can't

find Wisconsin on the map. LOL. (I'm lying, but you counldn't prove it by what you see on TV)

[coalition_unwilling]

4. The MSM are our enemy. 'Nuff said. - n/t

[underpants]

5. I watched Howard Kutz show "Reliable Sources" on CNN this morning

aside from the irony of the interview with Politifact's Adair:
1. Politifact checks facts - something "journalists" used to do
2. Kurtz was interviewing someone who proved that he wasnt' doing his job
3. Kurtz admits in the interview that political messages are so packed with lies that it is difficult to find what "facts" to even check.

Before that he had on two guests talking about how brave reporters were in reporting from Libya. They missed the obvious point that the reason the news networks now are sending reporters to take unreasonable risks to report from Libya is that all of the US media was exposed by Al Jazeera as being caught flatfooted.

[sasha031]

10. could we get Al Jazeera to cover the US

yesterday they did a great piece on Madison.

under the bush adm. and the run up and during the Iraq war the media was dead.

[EFerrari]

15. They do cover the US but we have to stream it to see it. n/t

[sasha031]

20. what would happen if the entire left shut of their TV's cancelled cable

and just streamed?

I did it a long time ago, and trust me I love it. Justin TV is great.

[AndyTiedye]

21. That is Why they Are Trying to Kill Network Neutrality

They want to make the internet just like cable TV,
where the provider decides what you can see.

[sasha031]

22. I know, they have got the teabaggers convinced that the government is controlling the internet

[valerief]

11. The Great American Blackout. Just like the antiwar protests. nt

[EFerrari]

12. Cable news is like pay per view porn without the girls,

the nudity or the content. And it pretends to be free.

[Tatiana]

13. Uh huh. Wonder why.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the media really doesn't want us to be very informed on this issue.

Thank goodness for alternative media and the internet or we'd really be in the dark.

[malaise]

14. Because in the ME and North Africa they are freedom fighters

In the US they are hippies, liberals and commies. :sarcasm:
Truthfully the media is owned by corporations and they too hate the working class and middle class.
I'm watching the live feed.

[EFerrari]

16. The media kept saying the Egyptian protesters were rioting.

And when Mubarack's thugs were sent out, the media said both sides were violent.

No Corpo-bias there, of course!

[Kip Humphrey]

17. In a corporatocracy everything is good all the time...

especially when there are SALES!!!

[malaise]

18. CNN is showing Libya as type

Fugg them

[flamingdem]

19. I would pay extra to see Al Jazeera US coverage nt

[AndyTiedye]

23. Hook Your Computer Up to Your TV

An HDMI cable should do the trick if it's a digital TV.

http://english.aljazeera.net/

[flamingdem]

24. I mostly want to see their USA coverage - about WI for instance

are they here doing that yet?

[pinboy3niner]

25. Yes--AJE has been covering WI

They've also had a reporter covering the Libya Revolution solidarity demonstrations at the White House. AJE Livestream is here:

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