[lbo-talk] Re: Kos on Marches (Doug Henwood)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 30 15:05:12 PDT 2005


Stuart Elliott wrote:


>Doug Henwood says that Nathan Newman, David Corn, and Marc Cooper,
>and others are wrong to criticize the ANSWER's role in the anti-war
>movement because the demonstration "received sympathetic coverage
>in all the major media."
>
>But Norman Solomon complains "if you relied on television for your
>news, you'd hardly know the protests happened at all. According to
>the Nexis news database, the only mention on the network newscasts
>that Saturday came on the NBC Nightly News, where the massive march
>received all of 87 words."

Silly me. I'm still stuck in the dead tree world. I read about it in several major newspapers.

I guess the TV networks would have covered it if ANSWER hadn't been involved.

Doug



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