
Media Coverage of the Tea Party vs. U.S. Social Forum
Source: Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting
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).