ABC Hypes ‘Massive’ OWS Protest and NBC Touts ‘Huge Crowds,’ But CBS Sees Just ‘a Thousand’
Substitute ABC anchor David Muir opened Thursday’s World News by hyping “masses of people taking to the streets here in New York City,” before reporter Dan Harris referenced “this massive protest march tonight” and “this big protest.”
Yet over on the CBS Evening News, Jim Axelrod noted how though “organizers promised tens of thousands demonstrators disrupting business as usual here in New York,” they didn’t show up: “Frankly, we’ve seen a fraction of that number -- closer to a thousand.”
NBC came in somewhere in between with anchor Brian Williams touting “thousands on the move” and reporter Mike Taibbi acknowledging “the Occupy Wall Street movement had promised huge crowds for its day of action,” then asserting “that prediction finally looked realistic a short time ago. Now some 5,000 protesters, union members and supporters are gathered in Foley Square.”
Since when is a crowd of 5,000 “huge”?
Muir led his newscast over video showing a moderate-sized crowd filling most of an intersection: “As we come on the air tonight, the Occupy Wall Street movement is reaching a flash point. Two months ago today it began, and this is what it looks like from the sky tonight. Masses of people taking to the streets here in New York City...
Harris, from the street, asserted: “This massive protest march tonight comes just two days after protesters were kicked out of their camp in lower Manhattan. Tonight with this big protest, they are trying to prove they still have momentum.”
From the top of the Thursday, November 17 ABC World News:
DAVID MUIR: Good evening. As we come on the air tonight, the Occupy Wall Street movement is reaching a flash point. Two months ago today it began, and this is what it looks like from the sky tonight. Masses of people taking to the streets here in New York City and it was a day marked by this. Arrests, chaos and clashes with police and live pictures tonight, New York City police now manning barricades right here, bracing for chaos as the protesters swarm the Brooklyn Bridge. Right there in it, ABC’s Dan Harris on the front lines, asking demonstrators today “just what you do want from all of this?” Dan, good evening.
DAN HARRIS: Hey, David, good evening to you. From the base of the Brooklyn Bridge where protesters managed to shut down both lanes of traffic on this historic span just moments ago. This massive protest march tonight comes just two days after protesters were kicked out of their camp in lower Manhattan. Tonight with this big protest, they are trying to prove they still have momentum. They swarmed the streets, trying to shut down the stock exchange, but it didn’t quite work...
Brian Williams started the NBC Nightly News by trumpeting the liberal cause:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Good evening. Tonight from New York, west to Chicago and St. Louis and beyond, members of the protest movement that started under the banner Occupy Wall Street are on the move. This is the two-month anniversary of the birth of the movement and this was billed as a day of action. It started in New York with thousands on the move and police right behind them. We begin with this still unfolding story tonight. NBC's Mike Taibbi in lower Manhattan. Hey, Mike. Good evening.
MIKE TAIBBI: Good evening, Brian. You know, the Occupy Wall Street movement had promised huge crowds for its day of action and that prediction finally looked realistic a short time ago. Now some 5,000 protesters, union members and supporters are gathered in Foley Square. That’s near New York City Hall and all the city’s federal buildings. Before that, much smaller crowds and the police in complete control even when tempers flared...
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the whole world is watching
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 9:55pm.
....and they don't like what they see. All of this chaos is going to be laid at obama's doorstep His chickens will come home to roost. Being on the side of the rioters is not a winning campaign tactic. obama would have to be really in the Marxist tank to believe the country is going to rise up and follow him into a workers paradise.
oh... but they are going to rise up. Next year.
Someone coined them as
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:05pm.
Obamavills, I have been using it in my speech ever since. They are already done, they just dont know it. They are being associated with the worst among us not to mention disease and violence.
I call them Obamavilles too....
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:15pm.
...just like history records the "shanty-towns" in the Great Depression were called "Hoovervilles" or "Hoovertowns" by the press at the time. One bad turn deserves another, and Obama cannot escape his support of these degenerates or the problems which they have created. Just keep using the Obamaville label and it will catch on. I do hope the GOP candidate picks it up and runs with it.
The left has never been able
Submitted by kg on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:53pm.
The left has never been able to count.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
The left has never been able
Submitted by kg on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:54pm.
The left has never been able to count.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
I cannot believe
Submitted by kata on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 9:57pm.
that these protestors think that the best way to gain respect is to piss off common working folks.
There still remains no clear endgame. And I think that's the point.
keep in mind
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:07pm.
Voters are more likely to vote against a negative than vote for a positive. These rioters makes it easier for whoever is the Republican nominee. They are just one more reason not to vote another term for obama. Voters will want change even if they are not crazy about the alternative. Reagan didn't beat Carter because he was so good but because Carter was so bad. The rioters are providing one more woe to a country that is tired of everything falling apart.
The coverage I've seen of OWS
Submitted by Bhaal on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:39pm.
The coverage I've seen of OWS hasn't included "thinking". Just alot of anger and idiotic slogans.
Well your basic sheep on the street doesn't.
Submitted by kata on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:48pm.
But there are people who are directing them. I am just glad I live miles and miles from any of these gatherings of collective stupid.
According to Rusty Humphries, Occupy Atlanta is beginning to...
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:31pm.
...peter out.
He mentioned on his local radio show today that he had been spending some time on their Facebook page, and it appears many of the Obama Worshiping Stooges are getting ready to bail.
Wish I could confirm that, but this computer doesn't go anwhere near Facebook, as their site security is a friggin' joke.
Besides, Rusty's word is always good with me. :-)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I miss Rusty
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:00pm.
Since they changed his schedule a year or so ago. Miss Bill Bennett too.
liberalism = criminalism
Submitted by stage9 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:51pm.
"This is WHAT terr-or-ists look like."
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
"We've seen a fraction of
Submitted by okie-pastor on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:58pm.
"We've seen a fraction of that number"
Laugh. Out. Loud!
Compared to their average
Submitted by brain trust on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:59pm.
Compared to their average viewership, 1,000 is huge and massive.
Maybe
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:13am.
the "media" needs to go back to first grade and learn how to count. They claimed 8,000 were at Glen Beck's gathering and the crowd was close to a half a million. Guess these elite, arrogant and well educated buffoons failed in math, among many other school subjects. Each day the LSM news is more pathetic.
Mathimatical Illiterats Can't Tell a Billion from a Trillion.
Submitted by Avitar on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:18am.
Or perhaps I am wrong; they may not be able to tell the difference between a thousand and a billion. They certainly could not tell the difference between the few thousand that showed up for the "Million man march" the hundred thousand and up who came out for the Tea Party events. kg is right the left has never been able to count, not people, not money and most especially not VOTES!