Comparing the Media Coverage

A few weeks ago about 40 malcontents from an ACORN splinter group went to the homes of various AIG executives to carry out their little temper tantrums. They were accompanied by a coterie of more than twice as many members of the media, including all the major broadcast and cable news networks plus newspapers a'plenty.

Forty protesters, nationwide front page coverage.

Yesterday more than 200,000 Americans, mostly middle class and probably most of whom had never before participated in any form of protest or political rally, gathered at some 800 sites around the country to express their displeasure with the direction of our government. The media did their best to ignore it...as expected (from Doug Ross):

Nearly 200,000 Americans showed up to protest high taxes in hundreds of cities around the country today.

The New York Times and The Boston Globe ignored "Tea Parties" altogether. ABC and CBS reporters were nowhere to be found. NBC, on the other hand, simply made obscene references -- using a tea-related colloquialism -- to express its corporate disgust with America's founding principles.

And a CNN journalist, rather than reporting on one event, decided to debate the crowd!

I gave the Mission Viejo Tea Party more coverage than most of the national media gave the entire nationwide event.

Doug goes on to compare yesterday's media coverage to the coverage given to Cindy Sheehan and her ditch people in Crawford, TX. Read the whole thing.