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It is getting worse and worse, Lynn.
Since I first got online back in the mid 1990's, I have always had CNN,
the international edition, as my home page.  A few years ago, I added
Fox to my toolbar and have been flipping back and forth between the two
for a few years.  On television, I watch ABC almost exclusively, for no
other reason than I like the local news coverage that comes on before
the world news.

I am always amazed at the differences.  I don't think either one is that
accurate(CNN or Fox)on the stories they cover, but they cover different
stories and if they cover the same story, the slant is very different.
    I like the contrast.  However, recently, I've come to believe that
there is no longer any independent media outlet.  Everyone has an ax to
grind.  Remember that scene in Men in Black, where Tommy Lee Jones picks
up a copy of the National Enquirer?  Yeah, that is almost true these
days...lol..

I had not seen the 'Promise Keepers' photo.  Who ran that photo as
factual?  Bloggers?  Who trusts a political blogger to run anything
factual? The news outlets are bad enough!  Fox and CNN were running
different photos.
On this page, you can clearly see the capital in the background, with
LOTS of street in between the protesters and the building.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/12/tea-party-express-arrives-march-washington-protest-government-spending/

The third picture on the CNN article shows a crowded mall, but it, too,
is different than the Promise Keepers photo:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.rally/index.html

A few days ago, Rob Walton made a post about the signs he saw on ABC's
coverage.  I missed it, but he stated that ABC's coverage was "huge".
Rob, can you estimate how many people showed up?


Bev

Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> > C-SPAN filmed the event. There were definitely more than
> > >"thousands" or "tens of thousands" there. The main stream >media
> > is LYING.
>
> Freedomworks (the organizer)  is going  to update their estimate of
> the Washington rally today: http://www.freedomworks.org/
>
> Politifacts had this: 
> http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/sep/14/tea-party-photo-shows-large-crowd-different-event/
>
>
> "To bolster countless claims on blogs and Facebook, many posted a
> photograph that showed a gargantuan crowd sprawling from Capitol Hill
> down the National Mall to the Washington Monument.
>
> But it turns out the photo is more than 10 years old, apparently
> taken during a 1997 Promise Keepers rally."
>
> Yep; here ya go; same photo:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/throughtheveil/2291798365
>
> Makes it hard to believe anything you read or see on the internet.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
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