Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Well, there’s your answer.
Echidne, filling in over at Atrios’ blog, writes:
It will be interesting to watch the media coverage of the anti-war march in Washington, D.C.. Will equal column inches or soundbites be given to the pro-war counter-rallies, even if they are much fewer in numbers? And would this particular neutrality principle apply in reverse?
It seems we have our answer. The Associated Press, via MSRNC, featured the anti-war protesters in only four of the ten columns it devoted to coverage of today’s protests. Then there was this gag-inducer:
The rally, organized by the ANSWER Coalition and other groups, was expected to conclude with a march to the Capitol.
Yeah, the only people opposed to the war are godless commies. Sure. 
Could you be any more blatantly parroting the GOP line, AP? Actually, they could. If they had done this:
The rally, organized by the ANSWER Coalition and other groups, was expected to conclude with a march to the Capitol.
Though the word choice alone has much the same effect.
Additionally, the AP failed to mention the involvement of Michelle MalKKKin in the Blathering of Smeagols counter-protest, nor did AP feel it necessary to mention the homicidal state-of-mind of the Blathering of Smeagols that had been induced by MalKKKin’s demagoguery of the possible vandalization of the Vietnam War Memorial. True reporting on unhinged conservatives screaming obscenities and trying to crash the barricades to take the scalps of some “dirty fucking hippies” is apparently taboo at the “librul” AP.
