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But, we were convinced that our fellow Americans were people of basic integrity and intelligence. (Well, almost all of us were.)

Therefore, there would have been no way that Orangina was getting anywhere near the White House.

That was our mistake.

Let's see how long it takes before we make it again...

AI driven social media is soon going to be dictating what the malleable masses will think and “know.”

If AI media is learning from itself what is relevant, Dems will never get another view, or subscriber-base.
When everything is so incestuous and algorithms deliberately ranking progressive content far down the list, it's already difficult to show that other viewpoints exist beyond what MAGA is seeing.

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Certain media can try and rub out this event, but at the end of the day tens of millions from one end of the country to another were able to witness the magnitude of this event in their own communities.

They know that when the class war comes their gated sanctuaries, military bases will not protect them when the shit hits the fan. The shit will hit when Russian agent orange makes elections irrelevant.

Which is totally understandable 😃

The answer always is, "Of course not." Because Google makes it a lie instantly. I actually checked the local Fox affiliate's coverage on 9-2. They were all over it and all over the cities covering the protests. Local Fox Affiliate, I repeat.

It was easy to find coverage during the protests. It was pretty much everywhere. Once they were over, the live reporting slowed down. Then on the evening news on every network they covered it a lot.

But, if you don't look, you don't see, so you can come to DU and complain about no media coverage.

Feh!

Your “google it” response is popular with a subset of members when media coverage comes into critical view. There is certainly an argument to be made about being hypercritical of the media, OP was about prominence of coverage, not the existence. Whether that prominence is driven by clicks from the users or manipulated by the site owners is debatable, but as a somewhat invisible user of media sources, I either have had to scroll pretty far down or to another page to find news about this. I think the complaint is not about being able to find news about it and rather what the media wants to point our attention to or away from. It’s a reasonable response to coverage from a point of view. I’m not sure what your reply is supposed to prove other than there are articles about the protest online. This would be a decent rebuttal if OP hadn’t already admitted there was buried coverage. Prominence matters. That’s why it costs extra money in the physical and online advertising world.

I don't watch any of that anymore. I do check out the Wall Street Journal to see what they're up to (the ultimate paper of the capitalists), but I've decided to support the indy media on Substack instead.

they DID blank out CPAC yesterday and earlier this week, and that has ALWAYS been a media lovefest but overall shitshow, and that was thanks to No Kings!

No one wants to hear from Matt Schlaap.

So 45 not being there is irrelevant.

EVERY FUCKING SPRING, the media fell over themselves to give 24/7 coverage of RW loons, blanking out everything else.

For example - I post this clip of Grover Norquist's speech often (now from 14 years ago), where he presaged what we are living through today -

February 11, 2012

Acknowledged over three thousand protests and 8 million protesters They even interviewed a protester who was upset about the Iran war.

They usually are busy normalizing the trump crap. Today was better.

I am quite certain that generations younger than 80 never watch TV or mainstream nightly news programs, and even in my age group of cohorts that are 60 and 70 they get their news from various internet sites. Yes, that can be good or bad, but at least there are many more outlets than ABC CBS NBC CNN that they're exposed to.

it's like 3000 citizens and their opinions didn't exist.

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and CNN was full of No Kings stories last night when I checked.

Why waste time looking at CNN? Who cares what the toadies cover anyway ....

But I'm all for people getting out in the sun and getting some oxytocin.

I can't think of any exceptions. You get an unavoidable mix of participants now. Maybe 85% sincere, upright people. Then you get glommers from other causes jumping in to steal the limelight, a few cray cray losties, lonely Eleanor Rigby and Father McKenzie types, and a certain fraction of mere criminals there to prey on the participants.

It's unfortunate. But if you don't have any way of limiting attendance now, you invariably get a mixed bag. And the media simply showcases all of the outliers and sillies. It's unavoidable. Just a matter of statistics.

For example, we had idiot community representatives waving flags (hammer and sickle) showing up at some of the No Kings.

And spent a lot of time on it

I just watched some of the coverage from WRAL and WTVD. Saw the helicopters from them both during the protest in Durham.
Both made sure to push out propaganda from krasnov and company as part of the coverage, and downplayed the numbers. Disgusting.

Yet they glazed every tea party hissy fit, not matter the size. Fox and other rw sh*thold media sets the tone...they decide what's going to be covered, then the rest of the mainstream ("liberal&quot media follows suit. Look how much time and energy EVERY outlet spent on kirk. You think a liberal podcaster would get THAT coverage. Pffft!

declare independence from the US. How would that be characterized?

In terms of polling for politics or policy it is a very significant number.

Typical polls for approval of a policy, party, or president interview 1200 to 2000 individuals. Although they are selected and sorted for various factors it is rather a small number to judge an entire population on. To the people who depend on TV advertising to sell groceries, soap, insurance and all sorts of other items these are significant numbers.

IMO given the proportional relationships which underly polling 8 million should be a very firm indication if not an outright fact.

No?

of my local stations covered our local NKMarch’s and it was the top story. I live close to a state line and there were several marches on both sides of the state line.

The front page was all about the Spring Football game. And the journalist just can't make good estimates. They always write that hundreds and hundreds were there. Last year we had over 5,000. This year more like 2 thousand. I called the paper and told them that, while the article was well written, the journalist vastly underestimates every time, and that the football game was not the most important event in Lincoln yesterday. Sure we are in Nebraska, but, cars full of people going to that game were hanging out the windows and honking their approval as they drove by our protest. We will not be silenced!

never happened. Millions of people in the streets against the war, but what you saw on media was 30 people at a tea party. with 40 portapotties.

they got caught out(no great consequence except educationally for us) in determined fashion downsizing all protest numbers just about each time there was another media release or new outlet. From many thousands etc etc down to some hundreds for example. And even when the Tea Party was snarked at they got immense coverage and no investigation or criticism or number emphasis. Some of those AH's were cosplay actors trundled around the country for any GOP purpose.

Behind front page story on recently found church marble carvings and Houthis attacking Israel. Page 2 more coverage of Iran goings on. At least it was included in the front page section, which for this paper is all of 6 pages long (for a Sunday).

I was truly disgusted

Of course, they show the stupid Socialist Party leading it. The socialists take over all of our protests here...so annoying...they are bullies and are super loud and manage to always be the first in line with their made-for-media optics.

Why does it surprise anyone that the media is on the fascists side?

Well, hey guys, guess what? You can take that money and go shove it straight up your ass! We the people are better than you, and we're coming for you!

Louder for those in the back

They're getting killed in the comments section.

by billionaires.

There may be a few media outlets that aren't fully owned by the ultra rich, but it isn't many.

There are variations of right wing viewpoints on the air and the Overton window is getting another shove to the right.

leading story on my TV channels.