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William Lindsey :toad:

Margaret Sullivan says she asked friends and relatives in various locations what kind of reporing their local media did about the massive worldwide protests Saturday against Trump:

"Quick answer: Not close to what it deserved."

Then she did her own research, and found:

"In the Wall Street Journal, the story’s placement was the 20th most important."


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margaretsullivan.substack.com/

American Crisis · Big protests — but not big newsBy Margaret Sullivan
William Lindsey :toad:

"In the New York Times, the home page made it only the eighth most prominent….

On the Fox News home page, I stopped counting after I scanned 40 articles….

The Washington Post didn’t put a story (only a teaser) on its Sunday front page in print."


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William Lindsey :toad:

"For weeks and months, I’ve been reading stories and analyses in major news organizations about how the public resistance to Trump is so much quieter now than in 2017.

But when the protests did happen, much of the media reaction was something between a yawn and a shrug. Or, in some outlets, a sneer."


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ProScience

@wdlindsy

Hypothesis: It's a feature, not a bug.

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Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’

@wdlindsy It is disgraceful! It’s very clear now that MSM doesn’t report the news so much as create the news-scape that Dear Leader wants to have.

#journalismfail
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Krystyna

@grammasaurus @wdlindsy

One article on protests on WaPo dated April 5. THAT'S IT. shame

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Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’

@krystyna @wdlindsy Thanks for letting us know, even though it’s infuriating

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mark

@wdlindsy has there been international coverage? After seeing so many people claim that Americans aren't trying when being ignored is closer to the truth, I'm curious if there were any coverage of this outside our dumb country. Do people know that we are trying?

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i.grok

@ATLeagle @wdlindsy yes there has

bbc.com/news/articles/cz79ewg1

news.sky.com/story/thousands-p

hindustantimes.com/world-news/
cbc.ca/news/world/hands-off-pr

thehabesha.com/hands-off-prote

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/vi

france24.com/en/video/20250406

This is not intended to be comprehensive

www.bbc.com'Hands Off': Anti-Trump protests held in cities across the USThousands of protesters gathered for the most visible opposition movement of Trump's second term.
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mark

@igrok @wdlindsy that's good, but I had to laugh at the sky and french24 headlines.

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i.grok

@ATLeagle yeah 😞

I often wonder just how much journalists just plagiarize off each other rather than doing their job

@wdlindsy

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lakeswimmmer

@wdlindsy if there was any doubt, this should make it very clear that the mainstream media is owned by the billionaire class.

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Bebadefabo

@wdlindsy legacy media is dead. It's just the necrotic arm of a propaganda machine. #Divest

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Crystal_Ship

@wdlindsy
how dare they not cover the biggest nationwide virtue signal in recent history?!

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