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NBC Channel 5 in Chicago Completely IGNORES 912 Rally. What's Your Local Markets Doing?
Self | 09/12/2009 | Self

Posted on 09/12/2009 8:34:42 PM PDT by usconservative

Just finished watching the NBC News here in the Chicago Market. Guess what? Not a single mention of the rally in Washington DC today. Not one single second.

Oh sure, they covered some small ethnic rally in a near south side neighborhood and Obama's speech in Minnesota today for nearly 30 seconds, but for the D.C. Rally?

Silence.

I just fired off an email to them expressing my disgust and letting them know I was switching to another station for my local news. I've watched Channel 5's news for as long as I can remember, but no more. Enough is enough.

They completely IGNORED the biggest story of the day, IMO, and as a result they lost a viewer and I told them so.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 912; 912project; chicago; media; nbcnews; newsblackout; obama
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Time to let these media idiots know they can't gloss over the TRUTH anymore.
1 posted on 09/12/2009 8:34:43 PM PDT by usconservative
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To: usconservative

nbc 10 in philly showed clips of the “thousands” of protestors that packed streets and included a few comments from protestors. They then showed obama at some pep rally pimping his plan.


2 posted on 09/12/2009 8:37:54 PM PDT by new cruelty (Shoot your TV. Torch your newspaper.)
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nbc 10 in philly showed clips of the “thousands” of protestors

Thousands, feh. Just read in an overseas paper (UK) which quoted the Department of Homeland Security as saying it was about 2 million people in DC today ....

"thousands".........

3 posted on 09/12/2009 8:39:26 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

Don’t know. I’m too busy ignoring my local markets. They irritate me so.


4 posted on 09/12/2009 8:40:22 PM PDT by madison10 (We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail.)
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Don’t know. I’m too busy ignoring my local markets.

I normally do the same thing for the same reason, but you'd think they couldn't possibly ignore this story .... guess I was wrong about that.

NO wonder they've lost so much marketshare to the cable news outlets (Fox)

5 posted on 09/12/2009 8:41:38 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative
Channel 10 (ABC affiliate) in Sacremento relegated it to a crawl on the bottom of the secondary 24/7 weather channel. Once sentence is all ya git!!!

I missed the 5PM news but I'll try to catch the 11PM news readers show...

6 posted on 09/12/2009 8:41:42 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Obama Targets Medicare Advantage Plans (Seniors Are Getting Screwed!!!))
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To: usconservative

Time to send NBC into the dog house. Do not watch anything on NBC. Contact NBC advertisers and complain about their biased reporting. Send them back to the Socialist Paradise they so long for.


7 posted on 09/12/2009 8:43:42 PM PDT by UncleVanya
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To: usconservative

NBC4 NY did about 30 sec on the haloed one and 60 on the rally. Neither story led as we have a local coed who’s disappeared from a Yale dorm. That story got about 90 seconds.


8 posted on 09/12/2009 8:43:52 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: usconservative; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER

Don’t worry, these media slaves to liberalism just hate conservatives worse than they hate Republicans and for good reason... WE WANT ‘EM REPLACED WITH ACTUAL NEWS REPORTERS!!!


9 posted on 09/12/2009 8:44:40 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Obama Targets Medicare Advantage Plans (Seniors Are Getting Screwed!!!))
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KTVU in San Francisco/Oakland gave it 15 seconds of coverage, right after 2 minutes of Obama’s “Health Care Reform” coverage in Minnesota.

Notice how the MSM is now referring to it as “Health Care Reform” instead of “Nationalized Health Care”?

They got their marching orders and are following them.

No coverage of the ACORN scandal either.


10 posted on 09/12/2009 8:44:58 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Birthers - People who insisted Sarah Palin provide a DNA test to prove Trig is hers.)
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To: usconservative

Do you have a link to that?


11 posted on 09/12/2009 8:46:33 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: usconservative

Local radio stations here in Detroit are says “Tens of thousands”

The report always comes after the Obama hoedown.

It’s okay though. We have spoken Truth to Power. The votes will come when we need them.


12 posted on 09/12/2009 8:49:13 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: usconservative

It was interesting... First about 2 minutes on Obama and praising the magnificent centrist speech and the polite large crowd that overflowed the auditorium. Then about 20 seconds of the 912 event and calling it a gang of angry and disruptive tea party protesters who took to the streets to voice opposition to affordable healthcare.

In other words, A LIE!


13 posted on 09/12/2009 8:50:38 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: UncleVanya
Same thing with ABC (owned by Disney). Whatever lies at the bottom of the information beginning to leak out about Disney, it's clear that the ABC news division has taken a dive for Obama and the New Left.
14 posted on 09/12/2009 8:52:13 PM PDT by UncleVanya
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To: netmilsmom

Yeh..the LSM is delusional. We will shock them in 2010 and the cry then will be ‘what happened’? Any we will reply ‘you lie and deny so we gave you bye bye’.


15 posted on 09/12/2009 8:53:52 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: usconservative

There were many of us lined up along Randall Road in the western to north-western burbs and that IS in their local Chicago NBC5 news area. I suppose that wouldn’t be interesting to them either.


16 posted on 09/12/2009 8:56:22 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: usconservative

I was shocked that the local NBC station LEAD the evening news with the 9/12 rally in D.C. They didn’t show an aerial shot, which would be REALLY shocking for NBC, but they covered it with far more balance than I could ever have hope to. NBC!

They said it was organized by conservative groups, but said it was not anti-Obama but anti-big government and anti-spending. They pretty much got it right. Frankly, I was very surprised.

By contrast, the others were silent generally supporing Obama’s Minnesota informercial for socialist medicine. CNN begged off by doing Afghanistan. And of course, Fox had it all.

FWIW, my local Fox channel has been covering the ACORN child brothel story as well. They have been covering it in detail. So not just Fox News on cable but my local Fox affiliate as well.

Both were Sacramento stations - NBC and Fox local.


17 posted on 09/12/2009 9:02:39 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 50... 49... 48...)
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To: SierraWasp

NBC in Sacramento covered it. I was shocked. I forget the channel because I am on Comcast. I think it is local channel 3.


18 posted on 09/12/2009 9:03:54 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 50... 49... 48...)
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To: Rodney Dangerfield

I am more bothered by the Republicans parroting Obama and calling it “Health Care Reform.” Every Republican should be calling this what it is, “Canada style socialized medicine”. Same for those on Fox News. They need to stop calling it reform and call it Socialized Medicine. That is more honest.

Tort reform is “reform”. Allowing health savings accounts is “reform”. Having the government take over our health care sector the way they took over GM, Chrysler and AIG, is “socialized medicine”.


19 posted on 09/12/2009 9:06:31 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 50... 49... 48...)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

By the way, NBC local didn’t give a number for the crowd but called it a “massive” rally, or words to the effect. I was shocked they didn’t try to ignore it or cover it up like the rest of the MSM. I was also shocked they lead with this and put Obama’s Minnesota health care infomercial after it.


20 posted on 09/12/2009 9:08:07 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 50... 49... 48...)
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