NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGES: Did your paper cover the march? [View All]

[Atman]

I'm beyond disgusted. I believe this totally lays bare the right wing media bias once and for all. When combined with the fact that CNN's new six-panel split-screen graphics didn't have room for even a postage-stamp update, the dicussion is over...

The Hartford Courant (a RW Knight-Ridder paper) had no mention of the protest on it's front page. On page two it ran a story with an obfuscatory headline mentioning people attempting to have their voices heard -- no mention of "PROTEST" or "100,000" or anything to draw your attention to the story. It ran with a relatively small picture of a very small segment of the crowd, showcasing a "typical" shirtless hippy. While the caption said the parks service expected 100,000 people, the article only said "tens of thousands." Right below it, with equal weight and just as many column inches, ran a story with the headline "200 Show Opposition To War Protest."

On the facing page was a LARGER story about a reggea fest at Mohegan Sun casino. I kid you not.

This is bullshit. We got Aaron Brown to at least acknowledge that people were in DC. It's time for letter writing/boycotts of all rw media and their advertisers. How we do that, that's another matter.