*Some Demonstrations Are More Equal Than Others: *Last week I saw a story on an anti-AIG bonuses demonstration here in Seattle. The brief video clip on Q13 <http://www.q13fox.com/pages/main> was up long enough so that I could count the demonstrators. (Who all looked as if they had come from Rent-A-Demonstrator.)
There were three demonstrators. Just three demonstrators after our local TV stations had been running angry stories on the retention bonuses for days. And that may explain why these three demonstrators got air time. And why I saw a story on one of the local TV stations on the Acorn rent-a-mob that went to Connecticut to demonstrate at the homes of AIG executives. And why I seldom see stories on other kinds of protests, not supported by our local TV stations, such as this one <http://www.myownside.com/2009/02/27/seattle-tea-party-protest/>. Some demonstrations fit our local TV stations' agendas, and others don't. As Orwell might say, some demonstrations are more equal than others. Even if showing them makes a TV station look foolish. Cross posted at Sound Politics <http://soundpolitics.com/>. (To be fair, I also saw a story this weekend on a later anti-AIG bonus demonstration, this time on KOMO 4 <http://www.komonews.com/>. According to KOMO, there were "dozens" of demonstrators at this later demonstration. So there were at least twenty-four demonstrators there, but probably not many more than twenty-four. The pictures KOMO showed suggested that there were almost as many members of the media as demonstrators. Three isn't a record low. I have seen stories on a single demonstrator, and I suppose that there must have been a story or two on demonstrations with no demonstrators at all. But a story on three is demonstrators is impressive, in its own way.) - 8:02 AM, 23 March 2009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
