When Coverage Matters: Tea Party vs. US Social Forum

When it comes to covering activist gatherings, corporate media have
established clear standards: Numbers don't count nearly as much as
politics do.

Last fall, when tens of thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender activists and their allies marched on Washington in a
grassroots rally for equality, media gave it far less coverage than the
similarly sized, largely corporate-funded Tea Party protest in
Washington just a month earlier (Extra!, 12/09).

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