A nice round-up from TVNewser of the evening newscasts. Will conservatives ever catch abreak from the left-wing media?
How The Evening Newscasts Covered the Tea Parties
NBC Nightly News led with two stories on tax day. Lee Cowan reported on the tea parties while Savannah Guthrie reported on the White House message of middle-class tax cuts. In his open, Brian Williams said the tea parties were “organized on the Internet and by some cable TV personalities.”
ABC’s World News made it the third story. First a soundbite from President Obama and a Dan Harris story on the tea parties which were “cheered on by Fox News and talk radio,” Harris explained. The Charles Gibson broadcast led with two stories on the pirate attacks–Jim Sciutto in Kenya with the crew of the Maersk Alabama and David Muir with a story on the attack of another U.S. ship.
CBS Evening News led with tax day–a soundbite from President Obama, a live picture of a rally in Arlington, Texas and a tea party story from Dean Reynolds. Reynolds referenced “a fistful of rightward leaning websites and commentators . . . embraced the cause,” while showing Neil Cavuto and Glenn Beck at two different rallies.
Was it a blackout or grayout? In my community of 200,000 the TEA bag party drew about 300 after all the media hype and local “grass roots” promotion. Even my conservative friends who complain about high taxes had better things to do.
My complaint isn’t with high taxes, but with how they are spent.
That’s a rather funny way of looking at… These tea parties are promoted and in many cases produced by Fox News and why would other news companies be covering a FOX organized event? and from this you talk about left wing media?
You guys are nutter because you actually think this is a grass roots movement… Ignoring the fact that Washington lobbyists and the mega wealthy are promoting and producing this whole gay tea bagging thing…
And to top it all off, you nutters are coming across like a socialistic French Peasant Revolt than any American Tea Party. All brought to you by Dick Army and Rupert Murdock… and you freaks thing it is a grass roots movement…Funny..
And all this time I was thinking that the media was spending way too much time on the subject. Humph.
I truly don’t see anything wrong with that. Credit where credit is due. Why should the media fuzz over them when they didn’t fuzz over any of the abuses that Bush committed or when crowds of people went out to protest? Those were America’s best kept secret. So, screw the Right Wing Nuts – they’ve got what they deserve!
This blog entry is lacking one thing. The news facts Peter Hart accuses the “liberal media” of not providing. The number of rallies, and the number of people attending. The number of rallies, and the number those attend. Apparently those numbers aren’t overwhelming, if the where teaparty.com would have them prominent on it’s home page. Other information, reveals that the numbers aren’t overwhelming. What did they expect from try to hold rallies on a work day, when most tax payers have to be somewhere else?