{"id":484,"date":"2002-10-05T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-05T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=484"},"modified":"2013-12-08T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T21:52:23","slug":"media-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Media Bias?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK ..here&#8217;s something to think about. <a title=\"Liberty and Livelihood\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=499\">Earlier<\/a>, I mentioned the Liberty and Livelihood march in London, which drew 400,000 marchers in protest of a proposed ban on foxhunting and other urban assaults on the rural way of life. The news media in this country covered it very prominently. That&#8217;s understandable, since a protest of that size really is newsworthy, wherever it occurs and whatever it&#8217;s about.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>About a week later, there was another march in London. Estimates on the size varied from 150,000 to 300,000. The marchers were demonstrating against the United States&#8217; and Great Britain&#8217;s plans to start a war in Iraq without the blessing of the United Nations. The march was virtually ignored by all the major media outlets in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it was smaller. But even the lowest estimate of 150,000 is still a significant demonstration. And the issue is one that should be of more direct interest to the United States. This really isn&#8217;t the first case of US media downplaying and ignoring international dissatisfaction with American arrogance. And yet right-wingers still manage to keep a straight face when they whine about the &#8220;liberal media&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK ..here&#8217;s something to think about. Earlier, I mentioned the Liberty and Livelihood march in London, which drew 400,000 marchers in protest of a proposed ban on foxhunting and other urban assaults on the rural way of life. The news media in this country covered it very prominently. That&#8217;s understandable, since a protest of that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=484\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Media Bias?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-7O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}