Traffic Cams? This is ridiculous.

[dutchdemocrat]

I can't believe it.

50 people show up to protest a brain dead woman and there's more media than signs. Hundreds of thousands of protesters encircle the Whitehouse and I am watching it on fucking Traffic Cams.

What a disorganized nightmare.

[jsamuel]

1. ./

[earth mom]

9. What does your post mean? Seen it a couple of times today...? nt

[BattyDem]

2. The press coverage is not disorganized ...

it's censored! Isn't democracy wonderful? :eyes: :grr:

[gollygee]

The lack of media attention has to be intentional

given how much attention has been given to much less interesting (and popular) events - especially demonstrations - in the past.

[WA98296]

3. How are you getting the cams...??

I've been trying all morning, and they won't load. What are you seeing?

Please tell

[annabanana]

7. here is one link

http://www.trafficland.com/findacam/trafficvideo.php?uid=0&map=142

try a few green dots around the mall..keep clicking, sometimes the traffic knocks them out.

[MADem]

14. Images like this, updating regularly (you got Java, think you need it)

http://cam02.trafficland.com/trafficimage.php?system=pub&webid=200148&pubtoken=7dd5777e337571d9813c324782fc19d3&random=0.24908720100842158

[goclark]

16. Only buttons with few people work -can't see MARCH

[MADem]

18. That means the cameras are overloaded, keep trying nt

[FreedomAngel82]

4. And there was a woman on Maher last night

who claimed there was no fear in the news room. Oh no! :eyes: Ugh! Thank God for the internet (and Al Gore).

[MADem]

11. That was Andrea Mitchell

Maher's rather clever questioning called her out. You could see her kicking herself that she revealed her GOP bias...but hey, she is married to Alan Greenspan, appointed by (originally) Ronnie Reagan....

[annabanana]

5. "disorganized nightmare"?

It is rather willful and deliberate ignoring...
We can't get our media to cover it... not the networks, not the cable companies...

[dutchdemocrat]

20. Yes - disorganized nightmare.

I would say that whoever is organizing this did a very poor job of herding the media.

Good organization would have had the speeches end and the march begin.

Good organization would have herded the media to the march.

Good organization would have organized video bloggers and set up facilities for uploading and/or streaming.

Good organization would not have shifted the focus to other issues.

Good organization would have meant I'd be watching a protest of hundreds of thousands of people on mainstream TV.

[lakeguy]

6. this is creepy to say the least. i always knew we had a problem

but it is really hitting hard now. the capitol of the United States of America is surround and not ONE SINGLE NEWS CHANNEL thinks this is worthy of coverage. un-figgen-believabel!

[tridim]

10. Apparently it's not even worthy of a mention in the scroll

at the bottom of the screen.

Screw the WH, we need to surround CNN.

[halobeam]

13. I think a poster from another thread said it best....

take the streets of NYC and shut them down with people. Maybe that's what this admin. wants and maybe that's the natural course for the citizens of this country to do. They will leave us no choice and it's going to get way worse before it gets better. That's the message I got from this.

Sad country. What a sad, sad, country.

[d-artignan]

8. At least we've found a use for traffic cams ;) n/t

[doublethink]

12. Hey at least we got the traffic cams !!!!!!

:bounce: this is pathetic but your post made me :rofl: Someone in homeland security isn't doing their job apparently, those traffic cams should have been confiscated, and if not for the internet .. well there's always morse code, smoke signals and the like ........ This shit sucks doesn't it? :crazy:

[NVMojo]

15. on Link TV, they questioned whether conspiracy theory existed or

or was it reality that one bridge was jammed closed to prevent traffic from getting through from the Trenton, NJ area???? Do not believe for one minute that a protest like this could ever go smoothly with this neocon administration in place ...

[earth mom]

17. Traffic cams not working.

I've tried several different links and none of them work in the areas I want to view. I even got a blue screen that had a date on it of 2004!..?

Putting my :tinfoilhat: on here, but it looks like they don't want us to see any of the march if possible. Sure we can watch the pitiful "Answer"-which is NOT the Answer-rally which had a few good speakers and a lot of stuff that wasn't about stopping the war in Iraq which is what the march is supposed to be about.

Right now I am feeling TOTALLY frustrated by this crap! :argh:

[RC]

21. The traffic cams are being overloaded.

One can only imagine how many people are getting their news from them today.

[Henny Penny]

19. Nothing disorganized about the coverage!

I can't believe you are surprised... don't you watch tv???

Kudos to all the marchers... I hope this is just the beginning...

:hippie: :bounce: :toast: :hippie: :smoke: :silly: :bounce: O8) :beer: :grouphug: :pals: :woohoo: :applause: :patriot:

[goclark]

22. Kidding right? Not Marching On my TV

[Henny Penny]

24. I mean that the lack of coverage is "organised"!

When I see a protest march about a particular issue, the very first question I want answered is "How big was the march?"

ie can we get an idea of how many people might support this cause?

And yet this is the last question MSM coverage will answer accurately! Strange eh?

The media will try and get away with not mentioning the march at all... or if that is not possible they will show closeup shots with only a small portion of the crowd visible. Or they will show shots taken as the people were just arriving or the last stragglers were leaving.

No-one working in the MSM seems to possess a wide angled camera lens!

[goclark]

25. Got it!

[WA98296]

23. Has ANYONE been able to see cam at 15th & Pennsylvania?

I can't get that one no matter how often I try.

I've got some great screen dumps though from farther away. It's 1:30 pacific time and there are still LOTS of people on the move!!