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Headlines : Media

Summary:

In a headline that summed up the absurdity of this type of coverage, the Washington Post reported (9/25/05): “Smaller but Spirited Crowd Protests Antiwar March; More Than 200 Say They Represent Majority.” Perhaps this “crowd” felt that way because they’ve grown accustomed to a media system that so frequently echoes their views, while keeping antiwar voices – representing the actual majority opinion – off the radar.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
Republished from FAIR.org

Media shrug off mass movement against war.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans around the country protested the Iraq War on the weekend of September 24-25, with the largest demonstration bringing between 100,000 and 300,000 to Washington, D.C. on Saturday.

But if you relied on television for your news, you’d hardly know the protests happened at all. According to the Nexis news database, the only mention on the network newscasts that Saturday came on the NBC Nightly News, where the massive march received all of 87 words. (ABC World News Tonight transcripts were not available for September 24, possibly due to pre-emption by college football.)

Cable coverage wasn’t much better. CNN, for example, made only passing references to the weekend protests. CNN anchor Aaron Brown offered an interesting explanation (9/24/05):

There was a huge 100,000 people in Washington protesting the war in Iraq today, and I sometimes today feel like I’ve heard from all 100,000 upset that they did not get any coverage, and it’s true they didn’t get any coverage. Many of them see conspiracy. I assure you there is none, but it’s just the national story today and the national conversation today is the hurricane that put millions and millions of people at risk, and it’s just kind…

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RECENT COMMENTS

Yeah, well, is the war in Vietnam still going? Give us a little time. This “anti-war” movement is years ahead of its Vietnam counterpart. I believe 80,000 troops had died in Vietnam before the demonstrations grew to the size we are seeing now against the war in Iraq. We SHALL overcome!!! Oh, and by the way, Nixon was re-elected two months AFTER Watergate was first reported. Bush shall have his day… in front of the Senate facing impeachment.

guerillaman @ 09/29/05 12:05:48

guerillaman @ 09/29/05 12:07:59

Patience has never been one of my long suits. I did wait over two minutes before I re-entered the post.

guerillaman @ 09/29/05 12:13:06

i was very surprised when i came back from DC to see so little coverage. everyone seemed more concerned about pointing out the alleged 200 people that were there to protest the march. where were they? i sure as hell didn’t see them. what i DID see however was 300,000 people coming together to send a clear message to the government. but i guess that alone is not an exciting enough news story to cover…

fuck the media!

ps. i posted some pictures of the rally here

harmony @ 09/29/05 13:27:45

see www.bushflash.com for a great commentary

snafu @ 09/29/05 18:33:23

Man, when I saw the word “disappearing” I though Rex84 was being implemented and the protestors were being hunted down by the police

TheHyperT @ 09/29/05 20:26:28

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