Mainstream media yawns as Kucinich offers impeachment

[Joanne98]

On Monday evening, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to read out 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush in an almost five-hour marathon.

Kucinich's action made an immediate splash on the Internet. For example, at progressive website Democratic Underground, the historic performance quickly garnered an astonishing 56 separate threads on the most-recommended list.

By noon on Tuesday, RAW STORY's article on the subject was the top political story of the day at digg.com and the 10th most popular for the last year. A separate article at afterdowningstreet.org was also high in the ratings. Both sites, as well as Kucinich's own webpage, were experiencing slowdowns due to the volume of traffic.

However, the mainstream media were far more reticent in their coverage of Kucinich's resolution -- much as they were following the release last week of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the administration's misuse of prewar intelligence. For example, the Washington Post and USA Today had short items in their blog sections, while other major outlets merely ran wire service coverage from AP or Reuters.

Kucinich support John Kusumi responded angrily at OpEdNews, writing, "The most important thing going happened on Monday night. An event that matters greatly to the course of history and to all Americans. Did you hear about it? Did ABC, CBS, and NBC break into normal programming with special coverage? Are there special alerts and bulletins on the cable news networks, where people can see them? No, no, and no!"

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Mainstream_media_snooze_as_Kucinich_offers_0610.html

[John Q. Citizen]

1. Yep. Our media isn't free, it's controlled. They won't cover what they don't want to.

[Individualist]

2. MSM is exactly like Pravda during the Cold War

Americans who want truth have to look to the internet or foreign media.

[az chela]

3. Last night was history in the making

Too bad the people in this country who are suffering from this administration dont pay attention to the good guys.Dennis you made me proud

[w8liftinglady]

4. it will be on Countdown tonight..let's make it a record viewer night

[FirstLight]

5. Not on BBC's page either...

Just chimpy and EU politicos

grrrr - this is definately something to get out in the regular world. I will have to print something out & distribute them all over town!

[EFerrari]

6. News flash: Corporate media is losing viewers and readers every day.

They ignore their audience at their own cost. :shrug:

[nels25]

7. Hate to say it but Dennis

is not considered to be a heavyweight by the media or by much of the populace outside of progressive news blogs/sites.

You can argue if you want but he was seen as a little screwy on the debates (Shirley McLain, UFO et-al) and he brought his impeachment counts to the floor of a empty house chamber for the most part.

Add to the fact that major know leaders of the party and house have not seen fit to pursue impeachment or to talk it up, and you have a recipe for the MSM to ignore it introduction.

Now if Barack were to some how comment on it, that would give it more legs, but I think that might not be smart politics for him to do, so I do not look for it.

We shall see.