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March Coverage is Sucking

by Salunga
Sat Jan 27th, 2007 at 01:29:58 PM EST

A quick diary goodluck to Booman, Bootribbers and the other marchers in DC today. Weather is beautiful in this part of the country today. On the media coverage it sucks. WTOP news radio from Washington did a piece that started off with tamborines, singinging and drums which never cut off and drowned out the commentator who was having technical problems. They let it play for the full minute and then apologized for the problems. Any other time technical problems are cutoff immediately. Just a coincidence I'm sure.
Later they did a small piece on the march focusing on the size of the crowd being smaller then Vietnam war marches and then gave an equal amount of time to 30 people protesting Jane Fonda's presence. I'm aghast at this being represented as a bunch of fringe types and putting front and center one of the most divisive figures from that era. WTOP news radio sucks call and tell them that I just did, they blamed the technical stuff on CBS.

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Yahoo also has a picture of Jane Fonda featured in their article. Jane Fonda is not the story here. Bush, Cheney and neocon imperialist policies are the story. Focus on the pain and the criminal policies of the administration.

March Coverage is Sucking | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

More MSM Coverage of Jane Fonda (4.00 / 4)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16841070/

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/27/iraq.protest.ap/index.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2828643

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/27/national/main2404540.shtml

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Sat Jan 27th, 2007 at 01:49:48 PM EST

Re: More MSM Coverage of Jane Fonda (4.00 / 2)

The msnbc story mentions Jane Fonda and other celeberties but gives more attention to the marchers I think. Maybe I am reading ti wrong but I think it is a pretty good story.

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by refinish69 (refinish69 at gmail dot com) on Sat Jan 27th, 2007 at 02:35:21 PM EST
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Re: More MSM Coverage of Jane Fonda (4.00 / 2)

Yes MSNBC did not feature a photo of Jane. They did give three paragraphs to her and the counter protest. I just feel like its designed to be negative spin.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Sat Jan 27th, 2007 at 02:45:52 PM EST
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Re: March Coverage is Sucking (4.00 / 4)

Given the declining ability for a Democratic, let alone a Progressive viewpoint, included in news coverage since Raygun dismantled the Fair Access Doctrine; a major organization, the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF) awarding a First Amendment Leadership Award to Roger Ailes, of all people, I'm surprised it got any coverage at all, let alone a positive spin...

[...]
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes is slated to receive the First Amendment Leadership Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF). On March 8, Ailes will join past recipients such as Katherine Graham, the Washington Post publisher who presided over the paper's Watergate reporting; First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams, who helped defend the New York Times when the Nixon administration attempted to quash the publication of the Pentagon Papers; Ted Turner, who founded CNN and brought a new world of extended news coverage to the country; and Don Hewitt, who originated 60 Minutes, the first and for many years the finest major network investigative news magazine.
[...]
more HERE H/T to C&L

You expected Fair and Balanced?...how quaint. </ snark>

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by dada on Sat Jan 27th, 2007 at 05:14:55 PM EST

Re: March Coverage is Sucking (none / 1)

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

by BooMan on Sat Jan 27th, 2007 at 05:39:25 PM EST

Re: March Coverage is Sucking (none / 0)

Never dreamed it eh? Missed this one will not miss the next. After all I am a seventies burnout and the tambourines and drums were kind of hypnotizing me on the radio.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Sat Jan 27th, 2007 at 07:07:09 PM EST
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