I wish our 100,000 in 2002 got 1/5 the coverage 1,000 teabaggers get in 2010

[Faygo Kid]

I marched against the war in Iraq - bad hips, then, and all - in 2002, with hundreds of thousands in DC. We got virtually nothing in coverage; maybe page 13A (at the bottom) in the Washington Post. But a teabagger gathers a few others together this year, throw in Sarah Palin, and they get gigantic coverage; far bigger than those of us who marched together against that war. Even though we outnumbered them at any rally by 10 to 1. And so it continues now, without challenge, except for a very few voices in the print media, at MSNBC and at Comedy Central.

Well, at least a few other voices are pushing back now. Some that we wondered about. Maybe no longer, like the President of the United States.

[Orrex]

1. In fairness, the TeaBaggers *are* a newsworthy item.

On the feed I saw this afternoon, there must have been thirty or forty of them at the McPalin lovefest.

How can the media not cover a story like that?!?

[Lerkfish]

2. amen

[Uben]

3. The simple reason you do not get coverage.....

The media aren't interested in your marmy-smarmy, intelligent, well-thought out protests. Those events don't have controversy. They want news! you know, the kind that get's people's blood boiling, turns neighbors against neighbors, and get's their footage played over and over again. It's not about you, it's about them! It has always been about them, their ratings, and how many awards THEY can win.
We would certainly like for it to be about us, so we could see those who protest with civility, see more positive news as opposed to the crime, death and incivilities that accompany mayhem. But....mayhem sells. Soooooooo.......

[Initech]

4. Because there is no liberal media. If there really were, the teabaggers wouldn't exist.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. How about the 1.2 Million of us who marched in DC for reproductive choice in 2004?

The media fell all over themselves to ignore that.

[Faygo Kid]

6. Point well taken.

I wish I could have been there with you at that time. I remember that, and the lack of coverage.