NBC News anchor Brian Williams likened union members’ actions to the populist revolts in the Middle East. “From the Mideast to the American Midwest tonight, people are rising up,” Williams said in his Feb. 18 opening segment. “Citizen uprisings are changing the world.” Williams went on to say Wisconsin’s capitol, Madison, “has been taken over by the people.” NBC News did not return requests for comment.
ABC News’ Diane Sawyer opened her Feb. 17 show in a similar manner, but went a step further. “Today, we saw America’s money trouble meet a reality, a human reality, as teachers, nurses, tens of thousands of state workers took to the streets in this country, protesting cuts by the governors, saying to these governors, a promise is a promise,” Sawyer said. “One lawmaker looked out at the crowds gathered in the Wisconsin capital today said it’s like Cairo moved to Madison.” ABC News would not comment for this story.
No major network anchor mentioned the signs comparing Walker to Mubarak or Hitler on air, according to a study from the Media Research Center (MRC). And there was little online or print coverage of the signs or of the violence. The Huffington Post didn’t publish any, nor did the Washington Post. The New York Times did mention comparisons protesters made between Mubarak and Walker.
The Huffington Post, by contrast, published a slew of signs from Tea Party rallies
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank also ripped on the Tea Party movement’s behavior during the House vote on Obamacare.
Brent Baker at the MRC told TheDC the television networks “treated the Wisconsin protests far more nicely than the Tea Party protests.”
“They used anything that could be construed as violence and claims of racism to tar the entire Tea Party movement,” Baker said in a phone interview. “Whereas, in Wisconsin, they’ve basically ignored all things that would make the union guys look bad. It’s all been about the governor’s policy and what they’re doing and how they’re fighting back against an attempt to ‘bust the union.’ They ignore the signs showing Gov. Scott Walker as a Nazi and they ignore the signs showing him in crosshairs.”
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The events in Wisconsin scare the heck out of the authorities. They KNOW this is only the beginning (and YOU should, too). Just about every state in the union is in DEEP financial trouble and there is no way the governments in these states can tax and fine and fee their way out of it, although they will do their best in those regards. The government knows there will be civil unrest in waves across the country as the price of gas, food, and energy skyrockets will no corresponding increase in wages - quite the opposite. When you are working 40-60 hrs a week and STILL can't pay for food for your family or heat your house, then bad things will start happening. Smart people are getting ready. The government's been doing it for a while...
lmclain, this is exactly why Salisbury News keeps delivering this kind of news to the Eastern Shore. I agree with you and sooner or later Americans are going to wake up. Let's just hope it's before they lose everything they own.
some of us have been saying this for years and the sheeple didn't listen.
the chickens ARE coming home to roost.
you people that aren't prepared are ripe for the picking.
when the cities close up and fire everyone, where do you think they're going to go?
they WILL come to suburbia.
you still think this can't or won't happen?
perfect.
post your address so i'll know when the time comes where to go for supplies.
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