Mainstream Media: Wisconsin Protestors Like the People Who Shoot Gabby Giffords? WTF?

[Omaha Steve]

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February 21st, 2011 12:54 PM

By Mike Elk

Despite the Wisconsin protests being the number one trending topic on twitter worldwide and finally starting to get media attention from mainstream TV outlets, not a single union leader or union member was invited onto one of the many Sunday talk shows to talk about Wisconsin. Instead the only person who appeared was Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

The Wisconsin protests -- with tens of thousands of working people occupying a State Capitol for nearly a week -- are truly unprecedented in American history. Clearly a new protest movement is being formed in Wisconsin, one that may breath hope into a democracy that so many people have lost faith in. But the corporate media doesn't want to hear about it.

The coverage of Wisconsin (with the exception of MSNBC) epitomizes a type of reporting that does not include the voices of ordinary Americans, but instead pushing pre-conceived notions about people being bitterly divided. Perhaps the worst of this inside-the-beltway coverage came from the Washington Post Columnist Charles Lane, who compared the protests in Wisconsin to the voices of hatred on the tea party right. Lane wrote:

It has been just over five weeks since a deranged gunman in a Tucson suburb left six people dead and 13 injured, including Rep. Gabrielle Gifford (D-Ariz.). In the wake of that horrific tragedy, Americans reflected on -- and argued about -- the possible connection between the violence and today's often nasty, polarized political discourse.

President Obama, in a moving eulogy for the fallen, called on all Americans to "pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds."

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[abq e streeter]

1. Mr. Lane is not just wrong or even irresponsible..That is just outright despicable.

:puke:

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. The Sunday shows were an "in your face" spectacle

These shows could not have been more clear about their agendas. Not a single voice for organized labor. NOT ONE!

[hay rick]

4. And you watch them because?

I don't watch CNN any more but I was at the gym and it was on on a machine in my view in front of me. I couldn't hear it but it was obviously a report from Wisconsin and the headline on the screen was "budget battle"...

Why would I ever voluntarily watch that network? Because dittoheads smirk when they call it the communist news network? Sorry, I'm still not seeing any credibility here.

[pacalo]

3. "Reality has a liberal bias" -- our media has neither; in fact, its slant is deplorable.