Nathan Newman wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>
> Chuck0 wrote:
>
>>The Post couldn't even be bothered to put an article about the
>>protests on the front page of Sunday's newspaper.
>
> -So? Why are you so obsessed with what the big media do? Surely the
> -Post editors, and the rest of the ruling elite they work with and
> -for, noticed it and made a conscious decision not to put it on the
> -front page. Or is the Black Bloc strategy to have a small group
>
>>pull off some
>>dramatic action that will grab some headlines, rather than organizing
>>larger activities that have a chance of drawing in new people?
>
>
> Come on-- the point of big DC rallies is to get media attention. If you
> want to "draw in new people", you do local events, not truck the committed
> hundreds of miles from home.
>
> The Post reported the only interesting thing about the rally, namely the
> numbers who showed up. Other than that, the speeches were mind-numbingly
> boring. I don't agree with a lot of the Black Bloc tactics, but I have to
> admit their entrance to the rally area was one of the only points of energy
> during the rally period.
If the point of doing a huge demonstration in Washington is to get media attention, why do people keep organizing events that we know won't get much media attention? I haven't pulled out my copy of the Post that covered the April protests, but I think that got far better coverage thatn this weekend's events. Do these out of town organizers understand that they are competing with historical large rallies when they organize this type of protest? Like the Million Man March or the Promise Keepers rally.
Chuck0
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