The TDS coverage of it on Wednesday night was brilliant. Steve Cooper <stev...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>The worst part for the cable news networks is that they missed out on >some >amazing television. No matter what side of the debate you are on, it >was >impossible to take your eyes off the stream, and the crowd in the >gallery >simply refusing to let the Republican majority push through what they >felt >was an unjust vote was a triumphant display of Civil Disobedience. It >actually made this transplanted Yankee proud to be a Texan. > > > >Even more shameful was that the local stations here in the Dallas-Fort >Worth >area gave it only the obligatory coverage and cut to the late night >shows >after their news broadcasts right as the action in statehouse was >reaching >the critical point. > > > >Steve > > > >From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On >Behalf Of Mark Jeffries >Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:11 PM >To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com >Subject: [TV orNotTV] Real Breaking News in TX Tues. (Not That Cable >Was >Paying Attention to It) > > > >Late Tuesday night, Texas state legislator Wendy Davis was wrapping up >what >turned out to be a successful real honest-to-goodness filibuster to >stop >voting on a bill to ban abortion clinics, the kind of story that you >would >think cable news would salivate over--but the Big 3 channels were in >late-night rerun mode, which meant that one had to go to the Internet >and >the Texas Tribune's online stream to see this legitimately big news >event--wha? (and no, Amy Goodman-ites, I don't think it's the >"corporate >media," because if that was true Rachel Maddow wouldn't have even >covered >the earlier parts of the story on her show that night because Comcast >wouldn't had let her): > > > >http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/where-was-cable-news-during-climati >c-abortion-vote-texas-99986 > > > >And oh yes, MSNBC's excuse was that the Maddow show covered the lead-up >and >that Maddow's blog had embedded the Texas Tribune live stream. CNN and >FNC >didn't say nothin' to the Wrap (I suspect that lame-duck Current didn't >cover it and that BBC World News thought it was too parochial, although >I >would hope that Katty Kay had it the next day on "World News America"). > >-- >-- >TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >--- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups >"TVorNotTV" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an >email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > >-- >-- >TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >--- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
