The Funny Farm

500,000 March on Washington - Corporate Media Yawns
the corporate media's despicable marginalization of Saturday's historic March on Washington DC and related nationwide protests against Congress calling for an end to Bush's escalation of the Iraq War.... A half a million marched in DC alone. Add in the hundreds of protests from across the country and you have another historic event taking place, with the corporate media twisting into contortions in attempt to down-play.
But is that the picture most of America received? I didn’t see any report Saturday night on the front page of the Sunday NY Times online but, by the morning , the print edition of the Times wrote:

"Tens of thousands of protesters converged on the National Mall on Saturday to oppose President Bush’s plan for a troop increase in Iraq in what organizers hoped would be one of the largest shows of antiwar sentiment in the nation’s capital since the war began."

The story was carried as headline at the bottom of the page, not exactly prominent positioning. No Photo. A story about tennis got bigger play.

NPR reported January 27: “While some citizens have protested against the Iraq war ever since the invasion of March 2003, the movement has failed to mobilize large numbers of people in public spaces. Has that changed now that a majority of Americans oppose the war?”

This coverage is deplorable but worse: the anti-war movement had not made it an issue. With more than half the country opposing the war, the movement is still being under reported and marginalized! And, naively, not doing anything about it.

We still need a march on the media. Anyone with me?

It's kinda hard to march on a faceless entity that oozes out of the idiot box on a constant basis, or any of the newsrags that spew Republican't lies without even bothering to spell check them. I prefer to boycott their sponsors, myself, as much as possible.

Plus, I have already tried appealing to the media (and/or the reasonable facsimile thereof that I got to interact with). It's a wasted effort and not worth it at all IMHO. Now, if there was a way to figure out how to sidestep the corporate media and get unspun infotainment out to the masses, I would be interested in pursuing the subject further. All I can think of to help is to post about it here. Lend me some link love, and I'll write about it.

I do like the way you think, and that you have many of the same unanswered questions I have, though...

Tom, you've got that right, there are unanswered questions. One of the things that the right does is organize letter wrighting campains to besiege the networks, maybe we should also do that as a counter measure. Much like many of us did during ABC pack of 9-11 lies. What else can we do......