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This is all about dollars, and the outdated notion that the most profitable way to run a cable news outlet is to be like Fox News, which is why CNN keeps hiring more and more right wingers and has hopped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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MADISON — In his inaugural budget address, Gov. Scott Walker stood before a joint session of the Legislature and delivered the somber news: We’re broke.

“Too many politicians have failed to tell the truth about our financial crisis,” he said. “The facts are clear: Wisconsin is broke and it’s time to start paying our bills today so our kids are not stuck with even bigger bills tomorrow.”

The governor has repeated the message time and again, from his Inauguration Day speech to a “fireside chat” to discuss his proposal to limit collective bargaining for most public employees. It is usually followed by calls for budget cuts.

Trouble is, many experts say Wisconsin isn’t really broke." Full Local Article | Chippewa News

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(AP) WASHINGTON - As Monday's tax filing deadline nears, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago, and nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all.
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