The mainstream media seems too chicken to report on the protesters. Looks like tear gas was used at least once.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120071936396

Interesting that none of the pictures show any sign of the snow that DC got yesterday.

Interesting that none of the pictures show any sign of the snow that DC got yesterday.
Do you trust Reuters then?

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7387087

you think maybe this is what happened? maybe they shoveled the snow? no snow in this one. you think the inauguration was faked?

The mainstream media seems too chicken to report on the protesters. Looks like tear gas was used at least once.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120071936396

Is the New York Times not "mainstream" enough?

Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/politics/13protests.html?ex=1106370000&en=b7dcc965e4555cb3&ei=5070

Photo slideshow of the protests:
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or, maybe that bastion of independece, Fox News:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144970,00.html

Or CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/inaugural.protests.ap/index.html

Or the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24281-2005Jan20.html

Or NBC:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6842927/

What, exactly, is the mainstream media too "chicken" to report.

Is the New York Times not "mainstream" enough?


Or CNN:

Or the Washington Post:

Or NBC:



I guess the pics are real and you original post was wrong

The mainstream media seems too chicken to report on the protesters.

What, exactly, is the mainstream media too "chicken" to report.

Looks like they caught on! ;) There was literally nothing coming from them for a while.

Looks like they caught on! ;) There was literally nothing coming from them for a while.

I think the delay was probably because it is inherently more difficult to report on something spontaneous (the protests) than on something scripted (the inaugural events). You've got to figure that the White House released the Inaugural Address ahead of time, and the stories were mostly written before the events even happened. With the protests, they would have actually had to first find the protest, and then write about them, and then report back to their editors.

Bloggers who are planning to be in the "thick" of the protests probably have the sort of advance information on the protests that "mainstream" media had on the inaugural events.