Have you wondered about the size of the FL protests? photos...

[Rose Siding]

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Maybe, you'd be interested in inspecting one of those wider shots to help determine that media-protester ratio:


Or, could I could interest you in a view of the teeming hoards that converged on the Governor's mansion to demand action.


Finally, check the throng holding forth at the County Courthouse for the last ditch appeal of the Governor's petition:


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(image 1: James Estrin for The New York Times; image 2; image 3: Carlos Barri/Reuters in YahooNews; image 4: Steve Cannon/AP in YahooNews; image 5: Steve Nesius/AP in YahooNews)

http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2005/03/cant_see_the_fo.html

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. What was the porto-potty/protestor ratio?

Guessing 3:1

[rocktivity]

28. Better than at this demonstration, apparently

:headbang:
rocknation

[ooglymoogly]

2. compare this to the sometimes hundreds of thousands of

war protesters and the media propaganda machine's coverage

[BurtWorm]

4. Should war protestors carry giant crucifixes around with them?

Somehow I doubt that would make a difference in the coverage they received.

[XemaSab]

21. Maybe we could pass the hat

To get trailer-hitch Jesus to come to all our big rallies.

[Redstone]

11. Good point. There's also the fact that a small crowd

of lunatics can (at least partially) spur bushyboy to sign "emergency" legislation in the middle of the night, and yet he dismisses those hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters as a "focus group."

Redstone

[gorbal]

17. So don't say "Why don't we have protests like those right wingers"

That is why it gets to me, when people come on here saying "Why don't we have huge anti-war protests in the states?" We do, we have had some of the largest in history in the past few years, I know, I attended them. it's just that the media doesn't report them, so to most of the united states, they never happend.

[FreedomAngel82]

19. Yep

You're right. I saw a couple of the photo threads of anti-war protestors and majority of them had a pretty big turn out. Here locally there was an anti-war protest and it got a little bit of coverage on the local news. At least it was something.

[Virginian]

32. Were there any war protests in Florida?

This may be the media's way of taking a working spring break.

[Demit]

3. I HAVE wondered. I read 50 protestors somewhere, don't remember where

Does anyone know if any media outlet has put a number to it? It's such a disgrace that they haven't. Such a dead giveaway that the media wants to pump this up as being bigger than it is. If the country saw the truth of how few these people are in number, it might see them as the crackpots they are.

[Afje]

5. Fair and balanced

Those eight people down in Florida made the front page of most papers in this country. This just shows what cloud these religious activist have these days.

[ginnyinWI]

6. Haha

On NPR the other day they said there were a few dozen protesters. :shrug:

[Rose Siding]

8. At most, maybe

Getty has LOTS of pix and there are no more than a couple of dozen in any of the shots I got through

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/FrameSet.aspx?s=EventImagesSearchState|1|0|30|0|0|1|0|0|0|52471077|0|0|0|0|0||0|0|0|0&p=1

[ananda]

7. mandate?

Looks like Bush's all-white, trailertrash mandate.
Sad.

Sue

[PATRICK]

9. With fair media reporting

Simply fair, maybe with robots instead of human readers, this would a devastating fatal setback for Bush. It would show the miniscule fringe that the whole GOP leadership is using or kowtowing too(silly and scary) shows that Bush's fundamentalist base is not only split but perhaps quicksand.

In fact it is lose all around but the media failure give Rove ample opportunity to do what he will and keep the rational reaction of America forever at bay.

Whatever the failure of the GOP or media to CONVINCE people to their side
they still succeed in rendering follow through blind and mute, and a persistent nuisance. The media failure itself goes on with impunity where even dwindling listeners means more people go uncentered and blind into events that will shape their lives. You can say no to the spin but you can't effect the abuses. So far.

And the party leadership would be wrong, once the eye of the hurricane MIGHT give them a time to comment on the farce, not to get to the heart of the problem and RALLY the majority of the people to what is really going on in America. And not blow the opportunity.

[mmonk]

10. the media should count

since they followed their marching orders well.

[The_Mule]

12. A very good point!

I had that yesterday. In my channel-flipping, I went through MSNBC (I believe) and stayed long enough to notice that the crowd gathered just didn't seem to warrant the term "crowd". They had repeated shots of the "protest" scene, and it looked to me to be mostly press.

They kept showing the same signs over and over. I thought that several signs looked like they were in the same handwriting. Anyone else notice that?

[Lorien]

13. Hmmm...several thousand of us marched on Tallahassee

after the election theft of 2000, but the media only sent a handful of reporters. No surprise here!

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. You'd almost expect to see

a statue being pulled down somewhere in there.

[MADem]

23. My thoughts exactly! n/t

[WMliberal]

15. "Terry can swallow" ... okay, so I have a dirty mind

:evilgrin:

In all seriousness, the freeptards don't realize that if they tried to give her water or food, Mrs. Schiavo would choke to death on it.

[0007]

16. Here's one

A very spiritual women with cross on cheek

[FreedomAngel82]

18. Where's the porterpotty?

:shrug: I'm not really surprised.

[ProgressiveConn]

20. 50 anti-choice protesters = Newsworthy. Thousands of anti-war protesters

= not...

[Rose Siding]

22. "a thick, fervent crowd remains" the NYT says today

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The legal battle over the life of Terri Schiavo may have ended, but a thick, fervent crowd remains in the makeshift encampment outside the Woodside Hospice House here.

In numbers, they were not as great on Easter as they were on the previous three days, when the legal and public relations battle came to its bitter climax....
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Further along, numbers are cited that have not represented by any photo or video I've seen...

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Only about two dozen people turned up for a dawn Easter service outside the hospice. But by early afternoon, as the muggy heat intensified, the crowd had swelled to over 100, still far fewer than in previous days, but louder, angrier, more demonstrative.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/28/national/28cnd-schiavo.html?

[paineinthearse]

25. At least they got the "thick" part right. nt

[paineinthearse]

24. FAUX slipped this afternoon

Mentioned that the size of the protesters was "approximately two dozen".

Crap, we packed (well over 300 people) Faneuil Hall in Boston on January 3 to hear David Lytel, Pat LaMarche and several others talk about election fraud. It was the Monday before the Thursday Congressional electoral college vote. Lytel announced that Senator Boxer would be joining Rep. Tubbs-Jones in the Ohio challenge.

Think this made the media?
Think the media even showed?

I blogged it on CGCS. Will probably did the same in FYI.

[WindRavenX]

26. these people are fucking idiots

Goddammit they make me sick.
They're comparing her TO JESUS CHRIST. How fucked up is that??

[BrklynLiberal]

27. When I was in DC last April, I never saw one media truck or camera.

No helicoptors...Nothing! My friends were looking for coverage on tv ofthe march. There were a million of us in DC that day. Not one damn word or picture!!!!

[jdots]

29. the crowd may be small

but the combined ignorance is huge.
If we could use thier ignorant hate as a power source,oil would be 3 $ a barrel.

[spanone]

30. It certainly did not deserve the coverage. Cheap media shots.

They really don't have to do any leg work, no research, just hang, it's just a fucking reality show. Meanwhile we are at war, aren't we?

[Generic Other]

31. Don't tell me that sign says "STOP KIELING"

:rofl:

[Biased Liberal Media]

33. It never ceases to amaze me how people protest over one woman's "life"

in comparison to protesting the thousands of lives that are being lost in Iraq.

Real smart logic there!

[in_cog_ni_to]

34. When the MSM doesn't show you a wide shot

it means they're hiding the crowd size. They want us to think it's a HUGE crowd. Remember the Saddam statue in Baghdad? They never showed a wide shot of that and eventually it came out in OTHER pics that the crowd was very small....not what the MSM and the administration wanted anyone to know. Those THOUSANDS of Iraqis were suppose to be ELATED that we were there. The MSM had egg on their faces.

[spindoctor]

35. At least I don't see any WH aides.

You get what you pay for. :)