June 20, 2011

WaPo’s Very Balanced Coverage of Netroots Nation

The Washington Post had a report on Sunday (6/19/11) from the left-liberal Netroots Nation conference. Actually, it’s a report from two conferences: The Netroots event and a smaller right-wing affair which schedules its conference to coincide with the larger, liberal get-together–for a reason:

RightOnline’s conference is smaller (about 1,200 people to Netroots’ 2,500) and more focused on strategy than policy. RightOnline always makes sure to be in the same city, so the get-together is guaranteed more media attention.

Mission accomplished.

Peter Hart

Peter Hart was the activist director of FAIR for 15 years, as well as the co-host of FAIR's radio show CounterSpin. He is now the senior field communications officer for Food & Water Watch.

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Steve
June 20, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Judging by the numbers here, Netroots is about one-fifth as many participants as the US Social Forum, which gets virtually no national coverage.
frank67
June 25, 2011 at 4:03 pm
WAPO and NYT are just worthless examples of the corporate media.

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