Variety: Biggest protest in convention history ignored by CNN/Fox

That is my headline, not theirs. The media will not attack themselves so harshly, but take a look at the beginning of the article:

As cable and broadcast networks mobilized Sunday for the Republican National Convention's four-day pep rally inside Madison Square Garden, the biggest mass demonstrations in the history of the nominating conventions erupted in the streets outside.

Protesters snarled traffic across midtown New York in an effort to hijack the carefully stage-managed convention coverage. The enormous crowd -- estimates ranged from 120,000 up to 400,000 people -- for hours marched toward the Garden from Greenwich Village to protest the GOP gathering, which opens today.

As helicopters buzzed overhead, the protesters spilled into Times Square, amid threats that they would disrupt restaurants and special delegate perfs of Broadway shows. They created a wild display of street theater for the 24/7 cable news nets that strayed outside the safe confines of Madison Square Garden.

Yet throughout the afternoon, CNN and Fox News Channel churned out their usual Sunday punditry and pre-convention analysis, never staying on the protest story for more than a few minutes at a time. MSNBC gave the demonstration the most airtime.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117909746?categoryid=18&cs=1

We need our own version of Fox for the left!

probably aren't intelligent enough to figure out where their polling places are.

Just wondering how much more there is to the article? I know there are rules as to how much you can post, but I'd love to read it in its entirety, if at all possible...

Mayhem? Half a million with under 200 arrests?
A sports celebration is much rougher than that!
Texas OU weekend in Dallas is rougher than that.

may·hem-n.

1>Law. The offense of willfully maiming or crippling a person.

2> Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing; wanton destruction: children committing mayhem in the flower beds.

3>A state of violent disorder or riotous confusion; havoc.


Alliteration does not clever make.
And pseudo-clever CG writer is a Weapon of Crass Mischaracterization. At least they showed some short footage, but then emphasize arrests and a snide comment on lower third? Blech.

C-Span and internet are the best tools for finding what is really going on.

Sorry for posting this on another thread...

on their website is a short photo essay of the protest.. Although they
are definitely focusing on the negative. their essay is not near as nice as the one on CNN..
they wasted an entire shot focussing on a grubby man taking a toke
off a cigarette...hmm looks like a Vietnam vet..

GOP begins convention amid massive protests.

Heck, the demonstrations in Boston got more coverage, and they were tiny by comparison to THIS giant event.

Also note that the number 120,000 was posted almost before the event began--to me it looked like half a million or MORE, and I was at many of the biggest ones back in the day and know what crowds that big look like.

During their daytime coverage, CNN ran extensive coverage of the almost non-existent protests in Boston (even interviewing one glum young protester, who conceded that almost nobody showed up, and blamed the heavy police presence).

Last night on Headline News, they had a short blurb about "gay rights activists, pro-life activists and anti-war demonstrators gathering outside of Madison Square Garden". NO mention of the huge numbers, NO mention that the majority of protesters were protesting BUSH and his criminal reich.

They probably didn't have any footage they could use because every time a new wave of protesters passed by their camera feed they would start chanting, "Fox News Sucks" or Fox News Lies." Must be hard to find five or six minutes of usable tape when you have 5 hours of protest against your own organization.

Of course, C-Span got it all live and now on video for your perusal at their web site. Everyone can see a protest against Faux news while checking out the protest. A twofer! Ain't America great!

will like show disparate treatment on many levels.

Expect backpage and 20sec TV apologies from the media sometime late in 2005--just between the Christmas ads.