SubscribeTiny Anti-War Protest Gets Full Coverage
From those lovers of terrorism at Reuters:
Anti-war protesters arrested on Wall Street
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police arrested several anti-war protests outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday after they lay in front of the entrance to mark the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
There was no impact on trade.
There were fewer than 100 protesters and they were outnumbered by uniformed police outside the stock exchange building at the corner of Broad and Wall streets in New York’s historic financial district.
“Stop the money, stop the war,” demonstrators chanted as police hauled away limp-bodied protesters.
Protesters said 39 people were arrested. A police spokesman could not provide an exact number.
Demonstrators said they were directing their protest at major defense contractors Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Halliburton, General Electric and others.
About 50 protesters show up in front of the New York Stock Exchange, and magically the media is there to record the scene for history.
And somehow there are far more photographs of their meager demonstration on the wireservices than there were of the counter-protesters over the weekend.
Isn’t it amazing?
It’s almost as if our watchdog media want us to lose the war in Iraq.
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March 19th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
“It’s almost as if our watchdog media want us to lose the war in Iraq.”
No, that can’t be true. Why, that would be….. treason!
March 19th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
That’s the benefit of having a PR agency working for you. Just call up Fenton … tell them what you are planning to do, they will make sure the news media is briefed and on scene to cover it. If the right wants to get serious, they need similar resources.
You need a PR agency who keeps things in front of the press, and a foundation that provides funds to the various action groups so they can pay the PR agency fees. Sort of like Tides Foundation and Fenton Communications work for the left wing groups.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
This is a copy of the email I just sent to WHNT, the local CBS affiliate in Huntsville , Ala.
March 19th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
The thing is that the people on the left don’t just have a demonstration and hope the news notices. They are professionals at this. They make sure press releases go out to the locations reporters read, they send press packets to the news organizations, they provide background information on the groups to help “educate” the journalists and make sure the stories get written in the light they want.
The reporters don’t go digging any of that stuff out, it is packaged neatly and delivered to them in a neat bundle with offers if interviews and suggestions of times and places where they should do their interviews.
My suggestion is to get hold of some of the PR material that Fenton produces and use it as a model. The right is never going to get the press coverage they want unless they basically write it themselves and drop it into the laps of the reporters.
March 19th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Why can’t some good Conservative billionaire buy/start a biggie newspaper so we could have our own PR machine…!
I’m _so_ grateful for the internet and blogs…without them, I think I’d be hopeless…
March 19th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I don’t know if Fenton still has it on their website but about a year ago they had on there a description of their mission as to get in front of the media and “educate” the reporter so the reporter can educate the people. If you want to get news coverage, you need to spoon feed it to the reporters. Otherwise the only coverage you are going to see is what *is* spoon fed to the reporters.
March 19th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Because suek the Conservatives don’t believe in vetting the ‘news’ and media completely to their side - they believe (despite what the left would have you believe) that free flow of information is the best route to a free society.
But then the left wants neither - free flow of information nor a free society.
March 19th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
I guess what I am saying is that things like the GoE can get more coverage but it is going to require at least as much work in “courting” the media that the left engages in if for no other reason than to let the reporters know about it ahead of time.
For example, if Fox had been given a formal packet that included expected number of turnout, where the group would be expected to be, basic information on the various groups and why they were going to be there, and suggestion places and times Fox could go for an interview and if the GoE had someone ready to meet them … then your chances of getting more complete news coverage are better. Nobody is saying to tell lies or “spin” anything in a way that is misleading or untrue. It’s just that if you want media coverage these days, you need to work a little for it because the reporters just don’t have time to go hunting out stories for a report that is due for that evening’s deadline.
It really is a matter of getting organized and making contacts in the news organizations in order to build connections so they can be aware of what is going on and when. You aren’t telling them what to write so much as you are telling them what you are from your own perspective. That also saves time in interviews because they arrive with that much information already. It allows them to ask other questions and for you to get more of your story out.
One way to make an enemy is to treat someone as if they are one. If you play the media’s game, you can get a lot better coverage.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Crosspatch, if you really think that there’s no liberal media bias, do a few LEXIS-NEXIS searches for us, if you could….
“hard left” “hard right”
“ultra-liberal” “ultra-conservative”
“arch-liberal” “arch-conservative”
“very liberal” “very conservative”
“extremely liberal” “extremely conservative”
Just for a control-group, try a few strings like “really hot/really cold” or “very wet/very dry”
Or consider the use of the term “progressive”. Granted, liberals may want to attach a new name to the same beliefs–try to look newer, avoid the stigma of the usual liberal-vs-conservative arguing, etc… But if we suddenly decided we’d rather be called “visionary” than the same old “conservative” we’ve always gone by, do you think the media would just oblige us? (BTW, you can go ahead and add “very/extremely/hard/arch-liberal” to your searches too–it won’t make any appreciable change in the results)
While you’re at it, look up a couple names–
James Byrd, and Ken Tillery
Matthew Shepard, and Jeffrey Curley–and/or Jesse Dirkhising
See which case got which more media coverage.
And I remember, when I was a kid, going to the Promise-Keepers conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. 25,000 of us–not only hearing the Word and making drastically important decisions regarding our lives and our families, but travelling from as far as California and spending massive amounts of money in their town on everything from gas to hotel-rooms to food. And in the other corner, 7 protestors from some atheist group or another who showed up with the news-van following them, ran at the mouth for an hour, and then went back home.
When we checked the Charlotte Observer, the protestors had an article with a color photo. The conference got jack–if the article on the protestors hadn’t mentioned what they were protesting, nobody would have been able to read anything about it at all.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
“Stop the money, stop the war,” demonstrators chanted…paid for by George Soros, no doubt.
With all that time to protest during the week, do they have no jobs? Or do they steal for a living?
Can’t we deport them?
March 19th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
>>…the Conservatives don’t believe in vetting the ‘news’ and media completely to their side>>
I’d settle for two sides…that’s sure better than we get now!
March 20th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Can anyone tell me how big the anti-war protests were? Over here in Europe all you hear from the media is “thousands” protested the war. There was no mention of the pro-war crowd. I suspect a liberal slant…..
Doingwhatican…it is my considered view that the vast majority of these people have no jobs and, in fact are probably unemployable. I say, go out and get a f***ing job and then I might listen to what they have to say. Until they actually start contributing to society, I have no regard for them.
March 20th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I have to agree with Crosspatch. The left is very organized about getting their propaganda to the media - who are certainly pre-disposed to agree with them - but additionally are lazy. The media hacks don’t want to spend their time actually working to find stories, or analyzing those stories for societal trends. They want a story pre-packaged and pre-spun and sent to them all wrapped up and ready to print. The left provides them with this - via Fenton and other routes. It would certainly be nice if some deep pockets would help fund this same kind of effort on the right, but don’t hold your breath. The right must work harder to get their message out, and against entrenched bias. It won’t be easy.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I guarantee several “protesters” arrived via the “military death machine companies” airplane, enjoyed a heated room from GE and merrily hit up Starbucks before said march.
The funny thing in NYC, expecially downtown - a 65 year old woman would knock someone down to get to her building on time to make a seven figure trade.
Aside from the so-called “media reps” there, no one gives a crap about a protester, denouncing the very things they use daily, namely in the world’s financial capitol most lucrative square block.
Far lefts have no interest and ability to effectively influence anyone. They run with the same tired, though well funded mantra, and act as if they speak for the majority wants and needs. Of course this could be true, if our population was 378 people…
And as many have said here - the majority of people, both for and against the war are far more concerned with their jobs, kids, health, tee time, TV shows… etc.