How the media discredits populist movements by misreporting the numbers »
Posted By tadair919 2 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
History has repeated itself. On a piece published February, 2003 Investigative Reporter Jon Rappaport brings us up to speed on how the mainstream media downplayed the numbers on an enormous worldwide anti-war protest. After breaking down the numbers from Sydney, Rome, London, Berlin, Athens, Paris, Dublin, Tokyo, Bern, Montevideo, and New York City, the amount of protesters clearly came in at about 3 million protesters -- not even counting the 600 other rallies held around the world that day.
So what was the MSNBC Headline?: "Tens of thousands rally against war."
"You've got to admire those headline writers and editors," writes Rappaport. "They'll lie even if their own story contradicts the headline."
Read THE ANTI-WAR NUMBERS GAME, archived below.
Fast forward to Keith Olberman's 4/15/09's "Fox News Lies About Teabagger Turnout," (and they did, but not as much as Olberman, himself) or the "Tens of Thousands" you keep hearing about demonstrating at the DC 9/12 Protest, and you start to realize who is actually running the show around here.
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tadair9192 months, 1 week ago
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It isn't the left. It isn't the right. The media's sole duty is to spin a coverup story that hide populism from the media-hypnotized American public. They are sheep-herders who shift their weight against the false left/right paradigm. Any time somebody (rightfully) calls foul, their attention is misdirected to land blame on on the "other team," instead. It is no coincidence that the so-called "left" blames the right-wing spin machine for false stories, while the so-called "right," lay blame squarely on liberal media bias -- leaving both "sides" in a trance.
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fjgalt2 months, 1 week ago
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I made this comment to another story but I think it's worth repeating.
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The size of the TEA Party rally is still unknown. One web site counted the number of people passing a given point every two seconds and estimated the crowd at about 500,000. Another reported 4,000 buses; if there are 50 people per bus, that means 200,000 plus those who came via other means.
Another web site compared a photo of the rally with a previous graphic showing the size of the Obama inaugural. The crowds roughly cover the same area. The implication made is that there were over a million protesters.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/for_what_its_wort...
It's obvious that the MSM are underreporting the size of the rally and hardly mentioning the event. So we can't rely on the MSM for accurate reporting. All we can do is search the Internet for bits of information to try to determine the real news.
With the biased reporting of this event, I have given up on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSN, and other sources for reliable news. They are just opinion or editorial sources, nothing more. -
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pc252 months, 1 week ago
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Yes, the picture is real, nutroots
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http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/12/yes-the-pictu...
Yes, the picture is real, nutroots
By Michelle Malkin • September 12, 2009 10:51 PM
I was offline for most of the afternoon and early evening — and just learned that the nutroots are claiming that the screenshot of the 9/12 march in D.C. that I posted — taken from a livecam of the event that I linked to here — is somehow “fake.”
The claim is that the shot came from the Kennedy procession or a previous left-wing protest and that the flag at half-mast proves that it was “fake.”
Newsflash for the clueless: Flags were still at half-mast earlier today in honor of the murder victims of the 9/11 jihadi attacks.
Guess the 9/11-was-an-inside jobbers are still that much in denial.
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canadianrancher572 months, 1 week ago
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As for myself I would just like honesty in the news, most of us has our biases but maybe honesty would allow us to be better informed, although it may have reached the point that we have chosen to watch the media sources that don't cause us any grief.
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As for the march the other dayI think it would do us all some good if we forgot about worring who was organizing it or who was going to be there and just look at the idea that was being presented. To me this government spending has been out of hand for awhile but nobody whats to say to their team that they should smarten up, this goes for both sides. -
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DenCuddy2 months, 1 week ago
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A pathetic little rally for pathetic people. Matt Drudge says the photos are fake, they are from the promise keepers rally over 10 years ago.
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From the Drudge report, the photos are FAKE, at least a decade old. Why do the republicans resort to lying as a first argument?
http://www.drudge.com/news/125133/tea-party-photos...-
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pc252 months, 1 week ago
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/Sq1XOXdv2yI/...
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different picture ace this one is taken from the DC traffic cams.
BTW does Drudge know you are infringing on his name
Drudge Retort cute. Misleading. I'll get ahold of them romorrow and others also over this.
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lloydm652 months, 1 week ago
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Noway.Whats your beef,pull your head out of Oberman's a$$ look around were not trying to remove Obama,but we are going to set some perimeters for him to stay within.Even a few road blocks between him his top down centralized government rule.We need to wake the courts,and find out how many more stooges Obama can put in charge of our lives,without some type of congressional oversight,or court intervention.
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