Hey CNN!! You could ignore us back in 2003 during the Iraq run-up..

[annabanana]

I don't think you can ignore us anymore. Millions of people are watching you NOT COVER the coast to coast rallies in support of the Wisconsin workers.

[AndyTiedye]

1. Yes They Can

If their owners tell them not to cover it, they won't.

[annabanana]

2. The more people ther are in the streets, the more people will understand

that CNN etc are just the Baghdad Bobs of the USA

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

10. They will until we move our demonstrations from Saturdays to...

...all day weekdays. An hour during your lunch break won't suffice. It has to disrupt commerce.

[bluestateguy]

3. Social networking sites really didn't exist back then

Yes the internet was a large presence in the news, but livebloggign was still a new thing, and wireless access was not very common, meaning participants in an event were hard pressed to relay it to the outside world via the internet.

Now that has all changed.

[CherokeeDem]

4. These Bastards....

They are really pissing me off...I noticed when CNN did have a report from Madison, they only showed a tight shot, but there the protesters were shoulder to shoulder behind him. He reported that the crowd was as big as the biggest crowd this past week, but then slipped in a very quick....'or maybe bigger' then went on. No coverage that I have seen of other cities, it's embarrassing for them to call themselves a 'news' organization. Meanwhile, MSNBC is giving us another episode of how to survive prison.

They can show twenty-four hour coverage of Egypt but not us. How to you spell 'corporate-owned?' Bastards all...

[annabanana]

8. They just had some tool interviewing one of the marchers, and

he ended with "Well, thank you for your opinion". . (like there weren't many out there who agreed with the guy)

[Tesha]

14. People should take wide-angle crowd shots, blow them up onto placards, ...

...and hold them up in the camera's view behind
the on-air "talent".

Tesha

[liberal N proud]

5. With Twitter and FaceBook - Who needs CNN

They will just twist the story to fit the propaganda from the right anyway.

I don't use Twitter or FaceBook, didn't see any reason for either, thought they were just a waste of time. The last month has proven me wrong on that, from Egypt to Madison, these forms of communication have laid to rest the right wings ownership on the message, something I thought we had lost forever.

[RC]

6. Most people are not on twitter or facebook

If it is not on the news channels, it did not happen

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Hold it I was told here, that we cannot trust tweeter

since it is not sourced... really.

[pacalo]

7. Actually, their non-coverage will be educational for those who may not have been as

concerned about the media's decisions in what to cover. Here is an issue that the majority of the people are able to identify with; an issue where it's obvious who the good guys are; & hundreds of thousands of protesters across the nation aren't getting media coverage? Now, why is that? Why does the media provide coverage of those teabaggers, presenting their over-the-top thinking as "normal"?

[jillan]

9. They have to figure out how to spin this first.

[malaise]

11. But but but CNN has to repeat their feature about Iman

She has stuff to sell. CNN only has time for TeaParty Kochthuglicans.

[spanone]

12. turn this around and imagine teabaggers holding mass demonstrations

they would be pre-empting network teevee, in a heartbeat

[YvonneCa]

13. Yes, they would. n/t

[Shallah Kali]

15. Here's abc news report on protests today

it's a hatchet job: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/pro-union-rallies-13010324

[old mark]

16. Thanks! that is the first and so far only MSM coverage of Saturday's events I have seen...

Hoping for a bit more coverage Sunday, but we shall see.

To be fair and balanced,I haven't watched TV for several days-they could have covered it and I missed it.

Would have been nice if they could have spared a few more seconds for crowd pics though, rather than commentary from blow-dried puppets.

mark

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. You noticed that too

cbs was slightly better

[Imagevision]

17. Chris Mathews, back then his show was called "softball"... huge disgrace while Bush & Cheney take us

to war after manipulating the intelligence.

[upi402]

19. Not 1 news crew in Washington State

that we could see. That's typical. The news media is guilty of treason IMHO.

effemall