It wasn’t blacked out altogether. NPR had a lengthy radio report (unsurprisingly, in its customary snarky tone). The report, which you can listen to online, had snippets from the event organizer, Reverend Mahoney, as well as some in the crowd.
I don’t watch TV, but others have told me that the event had some coverage on local network-affiliate TV news programs. Certainly we saw big professional cameras set up there and there were quite a few people walking around with monstrous cameras and press credentials dangling on their chests.
But if the national press didn’t cover it adequately, I’d place part of the blame on the event organizers. Here I am, an involved and media-attuned Catholic, and I didn’t hear about the thing until a few days before it took place. So something is wrong with the media contact.
Greetings ottbmare:
We did receive an e-mail alert about a Chicago event for the Federal Building Plaza noon Friday. In my case, a job committment superceeds a noontime rally.
And given NPR is not on my listen list, not a peep about this or the Chicago event in the Chicago MSM market. In fact, this “After Action Report” is the first report read anywhere online.
Frankly, the FloriDUH! shooting circus is seems like a magician’s slight of hand gimmick. Last week was “gun free” Chicagotopia’s 500th 2012 shooting victim and 100th 2012 murder, yet all the MSM covers is FloriDUH!
Cheers,
OLA