Media Blackout: CNN Fox News and MSNBC Ignore 100,000 WI Protesters
February 26, 2011 | By Jason EasleyReposted in Michigan Stands for Democracy by |Richard T. Rapscallion Jr.
"Over 100,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin were joined by thousands of other Americans around the country in protest of Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to strip collective bargaining rights from the state’s unionized workers, but you would not have known any of this if you watched cable news on Saturday as the coverage of the protests ranged from disappointing (MSNBC) to scant (CNN) to non-existent (Fox News). Full Article | politicususa.com
All three cable networks share something else in common besides their decision to ignore today’s rallies. CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News along with most other forms of media have decided that liberal protests aren’t newsworthy. They believe that the ratings and the money are in the right, not the left. The three cable networks are corporate owned and only for the purpose of profit. They don’t care about journalism or their obligation to inform the public.
This is all about dollars, and the outdated notion that the most profitable way to run a cable news outlet is to be like Fox News, which is why CNN keeps hiring more and more right wingers and has hopped into bed with the Tea Party Express.
There is a deeper bias evident in the case of the Wisconsin rallies. The corporate ownership of these networks, like most businesses, is anti-union. They assume that all of America is also anti-union, and they have conveniently ignored all the polling that shows the American people are behind the protesters in order to rationalize ignoring the protests. Full Article | politicususa.com
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Reposted in Michigan Stands for Democracy by |Richard T. Rapscallion Jr.
Disconcerting. Who's up for a FOX NEWS Protest?
Media Blackout: CNN Fox News and MSNBC Ignore 100,000 WI Protesters
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Why did CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC choose to ignore 100,000 people protesting in Wisconsin in support of collective bargaining?
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