“AMERICANS ARE OUT there, and we’re not getting any
coverage,” said Republican congressional candidate John Kuzmanich to
KGW reporter Joe Donlon on the station’s live broadcast from Pioneer
Courthouse Square on Friday night, October 23.
Donlon said he wanted to share KGW’s coverage logs with the
protesters. “Your protests were our lead story on September 12, and
then on April 15—here, it was our lead story,” he said. “So you
may have a beef with the media, but I’m here to defend what we
did.”
“Well, do you think it’s a story you’ll continue to cover?” asked
Kuzmanich.
“Absolutely,” said Donlon. “We hear you loud and clear.”
Cue cheering. Kuzmanich’s protest—along with 52 other
disgruntled Oregon Tea Party protesters—was to protest the lack
of coverage of their activities by the mainstream media.
The protest started earlier outside the Oregonian’s headquarters on
SW Broadway. Spokesman Jeffery Reynolds said the group is upset about
under-reporting of a Tea Party protest in Washington, DC, on September
12. The DC cops said there were 2.3 million people there, others have
confirmed attendance at 1.7 million, said Reynolds. “But all the news
networks reported it as tens of thousands,” said Reynolds. “That makes
us a little bit perturbed.”
“The media won’t report accurately, there’s under-reporting and a
lack of reporting,” said protester Randi Kainz, as the crowd began
chanting, “Hear us now!”
Nobody from the Oregonian came out to report on the protest. “One
guy came up to the doors but he scurried off in a hurry,” said
Reynolds. Then a KOIN van drove past the protest.
“Did you see that?!” asked Kainz. “That KOIN van just drove right
past, without even stopping. Make a note, please.”
“The president said we were ‘ginned up’ on talk radio,” said Roxanne
Ross, organizer of the Gresham Tea Party. “He also called us
‘AstroTurf’ because we’re artificial grassroots.” Ross denied the
president’s claims.
Waving signs depicting KGW’s network, NBC, as being in “President
Barack Obama’s pocket,” several protesters began chatting off the air
with KGW reporter Pat Dooris outside the network’s studio in Pioneer
Courthouse Square. “Nobody covered our Tea Party protest in April,”
they said.
“I was live at seven, saying behind me you can see thousands of
protesters for the first Tea Party,” responded Dooris. “And on that day
we covered a huge rally in Salem, so you got a twofer from the big
eight.”
“Boycott KGW!” read the signs behind him.
“Nobody likes a critic who doesn’t have their facts right,” said
Dooris.
“”AMERICANS ARE OUT there, and we’re not getting any coverage,” said Republican congressional candidate John Kuzmanich to KGW reporter Joe Donlon on the station’s live broadcast from Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday night, October 23.”
Wait a minute. It’s only Wen. night Oct.21st as i type this. Is this a typo, or am i missing something?
Matt Davis does great work!
it’s true, there were nearly 2 million tea party protesters in DC on Sept 12. In an unrelated story, on that very same day DC area restaurants recorded the lowest tips for wait staff in 150 years!
Oh, bullshit. QUOTE:
Spokesman Jeffery Reynolds said the group is upset about under-reporting of a Tea Party protest in Washington, DC, on September 12. The DC cops said there were 2.3 million people there, others have confirmed attendance at 1.7 million, said Reynolds. “But all the news networks reported it as tens of thousands,” said Reynolds. “That makes us a little bit perturbed.”
Ah, but contrast it with this:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09…
FreedomWorks, the main organizers of the Tea Party event in Washington this past weekend, has dramatically lowered its estimate for the size of the crowd at the event from 1.5 million, a number the group now concedes was a mistake, to between 600,000 and 800,000 people — though this is still substantially more than the tens of thousands that most mainstream media outlets have estimated, and which FreedomWorks wholeheartedly rejects… The group’s revised estimate — which it says comes from comparing photos and videos from the event to past marches on Washington — is significantly lower than FreedomWorks’ president Matt Kibbe’s weekend foul-up, when he announced that ABC News was reporting attendance of 1.5 million. ABC declared that it had reported no such thing. Kibbe has publicly backed off: “With a dead IPhone, I had been shown tweets from a number of different folks behind the stage citing the ABC estimate. They didn’t say it. I regret misrepresenting the network, as their coverage that day was fair and honest.”
OK.
Once again, they have their own facts, and scream that reporting is “biased” whenever it conflicts with their delusions. Whatever you want to call this crap, it ain’t patriotic. Just lies. If the “teabaggers” aren’t interested in facts here, they’re probably not interested in it anywhere else.
And, after insulting the media and claiming “harm” from the “misreporting” the reporter doesn’t bother researching or challenging their claim (which comes straight from Michelle Malkin’s blog that day, since entirely discredited). Mission Accomplished for the mendacious teabaggers (who don’t actually even know what the original “tea party” was actually about — it wasn’t about taxes, it was about tax BREAKS to wealthy buddies of the King.)