Anecdotal datapoint: Was listening to some radio news broadcast this morning, which carried a report by some CNN reporter on location at some tea party event yesterday.
The first two sentences from the reporter announced the fact of the event. The next two announced that the movement is getting some counter activity. Then she went to a recording of an interview with some anti-tea protestor.
About 2/3 of the story, or thereabouts, was setting up the anti-tea viewpoint, and the time and quotes given to the anti-tea protestor.
My bet is that more persons heard this wire service news report than any portion of, say, Rush Limbaugh, yesterday.
We gotta call our local news outlets every day, complain about their wire feeds, and force them to start thinking about alternative news source feeds.
I wrote a Facebook entry asking one of our local stations to get off the endless Ben Roethlisberger story and cover some real news...like maybe yesterday’s tea party? I noticed just now that my entry isn’t there anymore.