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Just_Vote_Dem

(3,528 posts) Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:21 AM Apr 2025

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Mainstream media ignoring certain protests is not new

I remember at times a handful of people in a Tea Party rally that would have many more reporters than participants and getting huge coverage, while rallies and protests for civil rights and the like not getting the same coverage. Nothing new unfortunately.

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Mainstream media ignoring certain protests is not new (Original Post) Just_Vote_Dem Apr 2025 OP

I remember marching against the Iraq war in NYC. HUNDREDS of thousands of people. No coverage to speak of. Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #1

That's terrible Just_Vote_Dem Apr 2025 #2

Pre-Iraq War, at least 500,000 people showed up in DC to march . . . . hatrack Apr 2025 #3

May I suggest... returnee Apr 2025 #4

Scrivener7

(58,277 posts)

1. I remember marching against the Iraq war in NYC. HUNDREDS of thousands of people. No coverage to speak of.

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:35 AM

Apr 2025

Just_Vote_Dem

(3,528 posts)

2. That's terrible

Reply to Scrivener7 (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 9, 2025, 08:08 AM

Apr 2025

Thanks for being in the fight!

hatrack

(64,239 posts)

3. Pre-Iraq War, at least 500,000 people showed up in DC to march . . . .

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2025, 08:10 AM

Apr 2025

NPR reported it the following day as "hundreds" - it was so bad that even Nice Polite Republicans apologized on-air.

returnee

(816 posts)

4. May I suggest...

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2025, 08:24 AM

Apr 2025

…we demonstrate against them. They might cover that.

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