After the tea party demonstrations of April 15th, I was hoping that there would be some fair coverage in the media discussing the issues raised by these events. Silly me! There is no hope of this. Indeed, nothing will ever change. The NY Times and the Washington Post treated these gatherings as if they never happened. The cable news other than Fox used the events as a chance to make sophmoric jokes about teabags. There was little discussion of the points that the demonstrators were trying to make.
It is an amazing contrast to look at how the Times covered these gatherings which drew about three quarters of a million people and compare the coverage to that received when Acorn sent one bus of activists to the homes of AIG executives in NY and connecticut. The protests by 40 people hired by ACORN were given prominent front page coverage. The massive protests across the country by the grass roots were hardly mentioned in a back page.
It is no wonder that the Times is on the verge of bankruptcy. The paper of record that I used to read every day is nothing now but a partisan rag that can't even seem to discern what is actually happening. Oh well, soon it will be gone. and none too soon!
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