(UPDATE - Seattle Rally To Restore Sanity draws 5,000.)
This count comes from this blogger's experience attending the Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009. On that day, there were an estimated 2 million people, extending from the Capital down past the Washington Monument.
On today's Rally To Restore Sanity, the entire part of The National Mall is covered with people as far as the eye can see, and the Comedy Central camera's aren't covering up a thing. It's huge. So large it scared off CNN.
CNN showed one clip with Ozzy Osborne while, for some stupid reason, explaining they were going to West Virginia to show Sarah Palin and an all-white group of performer at some rally you don't care about. Meanwhile, CNN rightfully shows that the Rally To Restore Sanity And / Or Fear is on Comedy Central, then turns to the West Virginia rally. This blogger turned to Comedy Central, where The Rally has a multi-racial group of performers. So much for Jon Stewart as a bigot.
Wish I Was There
Running a business means having to give up certain things, and one of them was the trip to Washington DC for The Rally To Restore Sanity. But I'm catching it on TV, as CNN's Anderson Cooper's tight black t-shirt is getting an Award Of Fear from Jon and Stewart. Too funny.
If CNN Were Ran Well
If CNN were ran well, it would have hourly coverage of The Rally To Restore Sanity from the ground level perspective. Who's there? What do they think? If CNN were ran well, the higher-ups would have sent the iReport team would be there in full.
CNN can do so much better.
Its not just CNN. All the corporate media have the equipment and the ability to cover live events as they happen, but they don't. Why do you think that might be? Control the information and you control the conversation, the press is no longer about searching for the truth. The press is now all about supressing the truth. Hiding the truth and only dissemenating that which supports the corporate vision. Who controls the corporations controls your view of reality. What is this world they want us to think is reality? Who benefits and who loses?
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so true. i really see that cnn has turned for the worse over the last few weeks even.
ReplyDeletethey are displaying their true allegiance before the midterm elections.
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