Posted on 09/08/2009 1:45:43 PM PDT by libstripper
You might think a major metropolitan newspaper that boasts "The Midwest's largest reporting team" on its front page would report on a suburban demonstration attracting thousands of people. In the case of the Chicago Tribune, you'd be wrong.
Today's Tribune print edition makes no mention of yesterday's Tea Party Express protest in New Lenox, Illinois, located only 36 miles from Chicago's Loop. The Southtown Star did cover the event on its Web site, noting:
About 6,000 people packed the hillside venue at The Commons Performing Arts Pavilion for the protest, part of a nationwide Tea Party Express tour that includes speeches, musical performances and updates from a traveling Fox News correspondent.
Monday's audience was the largest yet, organizers said.
Today's Tribune devotes two stories, six pictures, and two maps to Oprah Winfrey's "takeover of downtown Chicago Monday." And there are stories on disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's media blitz to hawk his new book, Chicago students getting free haircuts with which to start the new school year, and how more stores are now accepting food stamps.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
They might not print itbut our voices will be heard across this nation!!!
Readers ignore Chicago Tribune.
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/oct/28/business/chi-tue-newspaper-circulation-oct28
Drop deepens in Tribune’s paid circulation
A once-Republican rag is now not even RINO.
Well if all we hoped to accomplish was to get on the news, we left our victory in the hands of our opponents.
Seriously, and honestly, what exactly is the objective?
Remember, that rag is the one that gave the Illegal Alien his start by destroying his two U. S. Senate opponents when it obtained and published each one’s confidential divorce records.
LET IT SINK INTO CHAPTER VII!!
put 6,000 in front of the Tribune building at lunch time and they’ll notice.
Tribune Co. profitability continues to deteriorate
Tribune Co.’s financial picture deteriorated even more this year as declining advertising sales continued to hammer the newspaper industry, the Chicago media conglomerate’s bankruptcy filings show.
The company is much less profitable than before its filing in December, according to financial statements for the first five months of the year. Since the end of January, Tribune’s available cash declined by $50 million, statements show. Revenue declined about 23% in the first half of 2009, according to an estimate by Chicago-based Morningstar Inc. analyst Tom Corbett, who reviewed the company’s financials.
Yet, let 10 unwashed degenerate lefties or hired sign carriers show up and the press is all over it
It looks like there’s been a media blackout on the Grand Rapids Tea Party Express coverage as well. Not a PEEP about it online at the MLive newspaper’s site.
I heard it was over 10,000....
don’t you people know that if you want MSMslut coverage you need to have a least 1 person with an anti-Bush/Cheney sign...
Typical Trib.
I picked up a copy in the waiting room of my local physician this morning, and found the Van Jones “story” (a measly 3 column inches or so) buried on the bottom of something like page 7, with a headline that went something like “Foul-mouthed Obama appointee resigns”.
Almost no one reads the paper cover-to-cover, and most of the uninformed would crusie right past that headline. Even if you read the damn story, they barely were able to mention the 9/11 angle, and even then, did so in the most mealy-mouthed fashion possible.
I am so glad my wife agreed with me to cancel that worthless rag after their kneepad job in the November election.
Where’s Glenn Beck tonight???/
YES!!! I keep saying it, nobody is listening. It’s time to take the tea parties to the media. Camp out there for a day or 2, they’ll damn well notice then.
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