Media Matters: For Wash Post, Right-Wing Protesters Are Page One News; in 2002 Liberal War Protesters Not So Much
[On Sept 13th], The Post puts the “tens of thousands” of Obama-hating tea bagger protesters on A1; makes it the lead story as a matter of fact. Back in 2002, when more than 100,000 anti-war protesters gathered in the nation’s capitol to protest the Bush administration, the same Wash Post did its best to ignore them .. [putting] the story not on the front page, but in the Metro section with, as the paper’s ombudsman later lamented, “a couple of ho-hum photographs that captured the protest’s fringe elements.”
.. not to mention the over 500,000 people who turned out in Manhattan in Feb 2003 that got scant attention .. read more
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