<html><P>The Sunday morning network pundit programs also mentioned<BR>the demonstrations and generally they didn't denigrate them.</P>
<P>Greg Boozell<BR><A href="mailto:gboozell@juno.com">gboozell@juno.com</A><BR><BR>-- Liza Featherstone <lfeather@panix.com> wrote:<BR><BR><BR>People are always complaining that protests aren't covered by the major<BR>media, and at least lately, it's totally untrue. If there are enough people<BR>there, it will be covered. This one was covered by major newspapers - quite<BR>favorably, too - and I am pretty sure I saw it on Fox and CNN too. There was<BR>a wonderful, very sympathetic article in New York magazine this week, "Not<BR>Your Father's Anti-War Movement" - not about the DC protest but obviously<BR>timed to coincide with it. So perhaps it's time to stop boo-hooing about the<BR>media -- it's really not the problem right now. If anything, this march got<BR>too much media coverage -- anyone who watched it on C-SPAN seems to have<BR>been totally traumatized by the experience.<BR><BR>In re: Norman Solomon, 87 words isn't bad for TV. Probably more than the<BR>famines/droughts in Africa got.<BR><BR>Liza<BR><BR><BR><BR>on 9/30/05 6:05 PM, Doug Henwood at dhenwood@panix.com wrote:<BR><BR>> Stuart Elliott wrote:<BR>> <BR>>> Doug Henwood says that Nathan Newman, David Corn, and Marc Cooper,<BR>>> and
others are wrong to criticize the ANSWER's role in the anti-war<BR>>> movement because the demonstration "received sympathetic coverage<BR>>> in all the major media."<BR>>> <BR>>> But Norman Solomon complains "if you relied on television for your<BR>>> news, you'd hardly know the protests happened at all. According to<BR>>> the Nexis news database, the only mention on the network newscasts<BR>>> that Saturday came on the NBC Nightly News, where the massive march<BR>>> received all of 87 words."<BR>> <BR>> Silly me. I'm still stuck in the dead tree world. I read about it in<BR>> several major newspapers.<BR>> <BR>> I guess the TV networks would have covered it if ANSWER hadn't been involved.<BR>> <BR>> Doug<BR>> ___________________________________<BR>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<BR><BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<BR></P></html>