Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response to Fox News About 9/12 Coverage

By Linda Milazzo, AlterNet. Posted September 21, 2009.

In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers in Washington, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad to prove it did cover the teabaggers in Washington.

Du-uh!!

Oooh-oooh! Did I mention this is childish and embarrassing?

Apparently, CNN can't bear the perception that it may have come up short in its coverage of the estimated 60,000 raucous anti-Obama conservatives who converged on Washington. Even Rick Sanchez, CNN's chatty, albeit lightweight, social-media guy, bristled and self-righteously took on Fox.

For Sanchez, an admitted George Bush voter, there was no way Fox was going to accuse CNN of not covering a gathering of citizens on the right.

Now imagine a gathering of thousands of Americans on the left -- at times even hundreds of thousands -- and corporate media voicing concern about not giving them their due?

Now that would be a welcome change!

No similar concern has ever been even remotely voiced by CNN, or by any corporate media, for not covering the millions on the left who have marched and rallied for the last eight years. I mean, what's newsy about peace, right Rick?? I mean, right, Right-Rick?

Witness for yourselves Sanchez's hyperbolic defense of CNN against Fox for having the audacity to question CNN's coverage of conservatives. Then attempt to recall any time over the past eight years when "fair and balanced" Sanchez, CNN or any corporate media ever became that defensive over not fairly covering progressives?

Not once that I recall! There was never the slightest concern.

On Sept. 29, 2001, over 35,000 people across America protested George W. Bush's threatened attack on Afghanistan. That same day, similar protests took place in the Netherlands, Spain and Greece. American corporate media paid little attention.

Two days later, on Oct. 1, 2001, thousands of Americans in New York City protested the proposed war on Afghanistan. Again, corporate media paid little attention. Every year since September 2001, when the United States first threatened to attack Afghanistan, and ever since the actual invasion of Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, thousands upon thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in America, but corporate media routinely ignores them.

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Linda Milazzo is a Los Angeles writer, educator and activist. Since 1974, she has divided her time between the entertainment industry, government organizations & community development projects and educational programs.

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