I’m a disappointed DC Protester! [View All]

I arrived in DC early Friday morning on the red eye, and got home late last night, and I’m here to rant about the lack of mainstream media coverage of the protest.

Saturday night back in my motel I franticly switched channels to get the local news coverage of the days events. CNN had nothing and ABC had about 2 minutes coverage of interviews from those on the left and right. They simply stated that a few thousand had gathered. Not one single clip of the 100’s of thousands of protesters.

I got home last night and was very disappointed again. Shocked actually that our local paper only had a small bit saying there were a few thousand. A few thousand my ass!

When I left my motel on Saturday, I did not know how many people to expect when I got to the Ellipse. I decided to walk up Constitution Ave so I could go past the Navy Memorial to see the gathering for the pro-war protestors since it was on the way. I would say a fair estimate of the numbers was about two hundred.

As I walked further west up to 15th street toward the Ellipse my jaw dropped to the ground when I saw he crowd gathered at the Ellipse. It took me a long time to just get reasonably close to the speakers. Looking up 15th street to the north form Constitution Ave, the street was jammed with people as far as the eye could see! People were still walking in on 15th street from the North as the march was trying to get underway from the south, causing the world’s largest traffic jam of protesters. My own estimate put the crowd at 300,000 easy! As the first marchers arrived west of the Washington Monument, protesters at the end of the march had still not left the Ellipse area three and a half hours later!

Where was the main steam media?

Then last night on CNN and MSNBC all they had of yesterday’s events was a 30 second clips of Cindy being carried away. And all they said was that Cindy and a FEW others were arrested for refusing to leave.

I estimate that the crowd yesterday was probably in the neighborhood of 2,000. I did not see one single news clip of yesterdays event showing the overall size of the crowd.

They did not show one single clip of the Metro Buses hauling away the hundreds that were arrested.

They did not show one single clip of the crowd chanting things like "Arrest Bush! or "The Whole World Is Watching", “Hell No Our Kids Wont Go!.

They did not show one single clip of the police on horseback that wedged between the protesters on the sidewalk and those of us in the street. (I think we made the police nervous for a few minutes.)

The fact is that there was an event, a very large event that shows that the people of this country are fed up. The event should have made history in my opinion, and because the media does not do their job and report what they see, it will just be another protest and nothing more.

I’m a right, or was their mainstream news coverage somewhere that I missed? Someone please answer me!