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Greater New Orleans Tea Party Protests Mainstream Media 10-17-09
Protest over the blind following of this Administration.
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If you make a list of biased news orginizations and include everyone but Fox, it's you who needs to find balance.
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "notatheist" (R)
You kind of missed the point here!
WHY is it only FOX that is asking these questions.
After all they are relevent questions of any administration.
WHY don't the other news people cover any of this and if they do as in the case of the Tea Paries, why do they make it sound like an insurrection of ignorant rednecks?
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "aussite" (R)
The MSM is to busy prepping stories on our "National State of Emergency" (or whatever it is called) and the hype that goes with it to pay any attention to us.
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "menderman" (R)
Just keep your head buried in the sand. If you want both sides of the political issue you have to use multiple sources. Being one sided is NOT Journalism. It's propaganda. The ones who have woken up to this obviously want balance. Don't you?
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "Rocket_Smoke" (R)
most things in America are split down the middle except msm,think about it.
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "opacity" (R)
You kind of missed the point here!
WHY is it only FOX that is asking these questions.
After all they are relevent questions of any administration.
WHY don't the other news people cover any of this and if they do as in the case of the Tea Paries, why do they make it sound like an insurrection of ignorant rednecks?
If you truly believe that all other media orginizations are pushing a government agenda by blocking fair coverage, then by the same coin you should see that Fox has just as great an agenda in covering an anti-government movement.
However I'll answer your question on the tea parties anyways. I watched the coverage on all channels as all channels DID cover them. The reported figure of 1-1.5 million Tea Party protesters comes from a figure created by Matt Kibbe, who organized the event. It is STILL pushed by Fox to this day even though independent reporting, including that of police, fire, and aireal photography, put the number between 60-70,000. 1.5 million is not anywhere close to 70,000. Having myself been involved in the anti-war protests in 2003, I can tell you that while 60-70,000 is a good turnout, it's nothing extraordinary. We brought out TENS of MILLIONS worldwide but still were labelled as liberal hippies who were entirely disconnected with the mainstream by Fox News.
My point is that using the size of a protest to gauge general public sentiment or interest isn't accurate and even if it were, the tea parties failed to get out enough people to hold the general public's interest in the first place. Keep in mind that all media organizations are held to the interests of their viewers first and foremost and not to that of the general public.
I hope that answered all of your questions.
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "notatheist" (R)
Just keep your head buried in the sand. If you want both sides of the political issue you have to use multiple sources. Being one sided is NOT Journalism. It's propaganda. The ones who have woken up to this obviously want balance. Don't you?
You're saying I don't use multiple sources? I said Fox should be included with the rest of them for being just as biased. What's your point?
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "notatheist" (R)
You kind of missed the point here!
WHY is it only FOX that is asking these questions.
After all they are relevent questions of any administration.
WHY don't the other news people cover any of this and if they do as in the case of the Tea Paries, why do they make it sound like an insurrection of ignorant rednecks?
If you truly believe that all other media orginizations are pushing a government agenda by blocking fair coverage, then by the same coin you should see that Fox has just as great an agenda in covering an anti-government movement.
However I'll answer your question on the tea parties anyways. I watched the coverage on all channels as all channels DID cover them. The reported figure of 1-1.5 million Tea Party protesters comes from a figure created by Matt Kibbe, who organized the event. It is STILL pushed by Fox to this day even though independent reporting, including that of police, fire, and aireal photography, put the number between 60-70,000. 1.5 million is not anywhere close to 70,000. Having myself been involved in the anti-war protests in 2003, I can tell you that while 60-70,000 is a good turnout, it's nothing extraordinary. We brought out TENS of MILLIONS worldwide but still were labelled as liberal hippies who were entirely disconnected with the mainstream by Fox News.
My point is that using the size of a protest to gauge general public sentiment or interest isn't accurate and even if it were, the tea parties failed to get out enough people to hold the general public's interest in the first place. Keep in mind that all media organizations are held to the interests of their viewers first and foremost and not to that of the general public.
I hope that answered all of your questions.
Just want to clear up a point here, my comment on the Tea parties was made in reference to the many many smaller ones that were held around tax day, not specifically the one in DC.
Until the one in Dc the bulk of the MSM chose to ignore it or dismiss it as a bunch of losers.
The number of people is anybody's guess somewhere in the middle lies the truth.
I don't think they so much block fair coverage as much as their left leaning bias shows as plainly as it does on the right leaning opinion shows on Fox.
I just think they tend to overlook the difference between opinion and news especially when it comes to Fox.
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "aussite" (R)
My wife is from Greater New Orleans, Metairie, and she wants her voice heard and stands next to these brave Tea Party members.
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "Fire37Rescue" (R)
haha where is fox? one day calling obama fascist and on the other day he's a communist... blablabla bullshit
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "hexenhammer" (R)
THEY ARE RIGHT! GODAMNIT, THEY'RE RIGHT! The American media has suddenly become the worst lie factory ever devised, just as bad as anything Hitler's propagandist Goebbels ever dreamed up. If it wasnt for the internet, there'd be no truth left at all, and pretty soon you can bet they'll get around to that too!
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "4-B-10-ZONE" (R)
You kind of missed the point here!
WHY is it only FOX that is asking these questions.
After all they are relevent questions of any administration.
WHY don't the other news people cover any of this and if they do as in the case of the Tea Paries, why do they make it sound like an insurrection of ignorant rednecks?
If you truly believe that all other media orginizations are pushing a government agenda by blocking fair coverage, then by the same coin you should see that Fox has just as great an agenda in covering an anti-government movement.
However I'll answer your question on the tea parties anyways. I watched the coverage on all channels as all channels DID cover them. The reported figure of 1-1.5 million Tea Party protesters comes from a figure created by Matt Kibbe, who organized the event. It is STILL pushed by Fox to this day even though independent reporting, including that of police, fire, and aireal photography, put the number between 60-70,000. 1.5 million is not anywhere close to 70,000. Having myself been involved in the anti-war protests in 2003, I can tell you that while 60-70,000 is a good turnout, it's nothing extraordinary. We brought out TENS of MILLIONS worldwide but still were labelled as liberal hippies who were entirely disconnected with the mainstream by Fox News.
My point is that using the size of a protest to gauge general public sentiment or interest isn't accurate and even if it were, the tea parties failed to get out enough people to hold the general public's interest in the first place. Keep in mind that all media organizations are held to the interests of their viewers first and foremost and not to that of the general public.
I hope that answered all of your questions.
Just want to clear up a point here, my comment on the Tea parties was made in reference to the many many smaller ones that were held around tax day, not specifically the one in DC.
Until the one in Dc the bulk of the MSM chose to ignore it or dismiss it as a bunch of losers.
The number of people is anybody's guess somewhere in the middle lies the truth.
I don't think they so much block fair coverage as much as their left leaning bias shows as plainly as it does on the right leaning opinion shows on Fox.
I just think they tend to overlook the difference between opinion and news especially when it comes to Fox.
We mostly agree then but my point still stands. If the largest of the tea parties doesn't warrant constant coverage, then why would the smaller ones?
All independent sources say the DC protest was 70k max. You can't say that because the organizer puts the number at 1.5 million that the truth is "somewhere in the middle". If you were to triple the actual turnout you'd still be nowhere near the middle.
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "notatheist" (R)
About twenty years ago there was a woman watching a military parade in her home town. As they marched by she exclaimed "Aren't they awful?" A fellow parade watcher disagreed. "They are pretty good." but added "All except that one guy. He's out of step." The woman, a future Faux Entertainment zombie, replied, "No, that's my son. The others are all wrong. He is the only one in step."
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "sclaus4" (B)
Just keep your head buried in the sand. If you want both sides of the political issue you have to use multiple sources. Being one sided is NOT Journalism. It's propaganda. The ones who have woken up to this obviously want balance. Don't you?
If you want Republican propaganda, Faux Entertainment is the channel for you.
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "sclaus4" (B)
i took cnn,cbs,nbc msnbc off of my news source, on my home page. no need to have them on it when they don't report any news. was just taking up space. shame on them!! useless....voted
Posted Oct-24-2009 by "star53" (R)