Demonstration Coverage

March 23, 2003

I couldn't go to the protest yesterday, which was disappointing. Thankfully, 200,000 other people did show up. Now I didn't watch much tv yesterday, but I did just see a story on the local news. The only problem is that it was about the rally in support of the war. As the newscaster put it, "1,000 people showed up." She was very enthused. They then briefly mentioned the anti-war rallies and the 200,000 people, only to return to their coverage of the huge demonstration in Times Square today.

During the piece they did some interviews with people who were "outraged" by the protests yesterday and who just want to "liberate the people in Iraq." Have you heard the Iraqi people begging us to liberate them? I haven't.

The media frustrates me to no end.

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