RE- POSTED | Media Blackout: CNN Fox News and MSNBC Ignore 100,000 WI Protesters

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This is all about dollars, and the outdated notion that the most profitable way to run a cable news outlet is to be like Fox News, which is why CNN keeps hiring more and more right wingers and has hopped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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Rachel Maddow Calls Out The Mainstream Media For Ignoring Liberals

Rachel Maddow Calls Out The Mainstream Media For Ignoring Liberals

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AP is stepping up its coverage of states being under seige; mainstream media just isn't picking up the stories. - R

Rachel Maddow Calls Out The Mainstream Media For Ignoring Liberals
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On her program Rachel Maddow called out the mainstream media for ignoring liberals,“I am just going to say it. The beltway press does not cover liberals.” Full Article Here | Politicus USA

Hannity: Media says the GOP is racist, evil and stupid | Raw Replay

Hannity: Media says the GOP is racist, evil and stupid | Raw Replay

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Hannity blames "liberal" dominance of US "intellectual life" since the mid-20th Century.
Hannity: Media says the GOP is racist, evil and stupid | Raw Replay
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On Friday night, Fox News’ Sean Hannity featured an hour-long documentary that examined the origins of the “Obama-Mania-Media’s liberal bias.” In Behind the Bias: The History of Liberal Media, Hannity says the roots of this bias “remains the mystery” and then cites a New York Times journalist’s 1933 Full Article Here | Raw Replay

The Breaking Time: Fragmented plurality: An interview with Gabriella Coleman

The Breaking Time: Fragmented plurality: An interview with Gabriella Coleman

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V: An interesting interview with anthropologist Gabriella Coleman, one of the only academics who regularly writes about Anonymous. Give 'er a read.
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Photo by Simon Law Gabriella Coleman moves between a lot of different worlds. She's an assistant professor on media, culture and communication at NYU, a writer on digital culture, and an anthropologist by training. Her work, specifically on the (in)famous...

Predictable: Right-Wing Media Respond To WI Supreme Court Election With Baseless Voter Fraud Allegations | Media Matters for America

Predictable: Right-Wing Media Respond To WI Supreme Court Election With Baseless Voter Fraud Allegations | Media Matters for America



According to Hasen: ""No Proof Of Any Systemic Fraud Has Been Unearthed." In an April 6 Politico column, election law expert Richard Hasen discussed the "razor-thin" electoral results in Wisconsin and noted:

A recount in this race, which some view as a referendum on Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union policies, seems inevitable, and it is not clear who will ultimately take the seat on the Wisconsin bench. But if this expensive and nasty race ends up in protracted litigation, it could undermine public confidence in both the judiciary and Wisconsin's electoral process, especially if, as I expect, supporters of Prosser raise ugly allegations of voter fraud." LINK TO FULL ARTICLE


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Predictable: Right-Wing Media Respond To WI Supreme Court Election With Baseless Voter Fraud Allegations | Media Matters for America

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Media and Corporate Power: Beating Back the K Street Juggernaut | National Conference for Media Reform 2011

Media and Corporate Power: Beating Back the K Street Juggernaut | National Conference for Media Reform 2011

"These two issues: fostering an informed and connected society, and making politicians accountable to regular people, rather than to corporations and the super-rich, represent the most critical “structural” reforms necessary to make all other reforms possible. Join top leaders who are taking on the “corporate complex” with a discussion of promising legal, policy, communications and organizing efforts under way across the country."

Facebook page for the event:http://www.facebook.com/#!/conference.freepress

Censorship in the Age of Facebook and Twitter | National Conference for Media Reform 2011

Censorship in the Age of Facebook and Twitter | National Conference for Media Reform 2011

"This panel will look at the role private tech companies play as gatekeepers of expression, with both critics and supporters discussing how we can protect social media users while keeping these platforms open, secure and innovative."

Russian TV Covers Wisconsin Protests While US Media Ignores Them | Video Cafe

Russian TV Covers Wisconsin Protests While US Media Ignores Them | Video Cafe



February 26, 2011 | By Jason Easley
You Tube | Uploaded by RussiaToday on Feb 22, 2011


"One of our comments asked "has it really come to this?" where we're seeing a report on Russian television on how the US media has collectively ignored what's going on in Wisconsin? Sadly, yes we have. Our corporate media in America have done their best to ignore these protests and Russia Today has not.

From Russia Today -- The Other Story: Home Made Uprising in Madison Wisconsin:
The turbulence in the Arab world has drawn the full attention of the American media. Riots and demonstrations in Libya and Bahrain are dominating the news channels' at primetime, and the newspaper front pages. As Lauren Lyster reports, while U.S. leaders fly the flag for popular uprisings thousands of miles away, it's a very different story at home. See More | Video Cafe | crooksandliars.com

Top Comments | I was there for 5 days. I slept on the floors of my Capitol building. I ate food that was donated from all 50 states and an additional 58 countries. I talked with people I'd never met like they were people I had known my whole life. I talked to people who, without realizing it, CHANGED my life. There was no anger. There was only love. Russia Today, you are the only people who seem to understand what we're doing. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. See
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