Freepers ands Move America Forward have been innundating the media with information about this rally for many days now. And people on the ground in Crawford say there is LOTS of media on site.
As far as holding off until Monday, don't forget that the folks on our side are working people who have jobs and other commitments during the week, unlike the professional protesters that make up the leftist rabble hanging onto Sheehan (many of whom are collecting dope money by sitting in the Texas sun for the MSM to film). There's just no way we could hope to have anything near the turnout we have today on Monday.
So yes, the MSM is biased enough to ignore this counter-protest. They do this every year anyway, when a million pro-lifers brave DC in January to mark the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade on the National Mall.
Someone a few posts back made the point that the footage has to be edited and the stories put together so that they can be presented on the newscasts. This is a good point. It'll be interesting to see what the newscasts look like as those stories are completed.
As far as holding off until Monday, don't forget that the folks on our side are working people who have jobs and other commitments during the week..
Absolutely. Which means our folks had to do their thing today. It's just difficult for me to swallow the notion there would be almost zero coverage of 3000+ counterprotesters when the protest has been the dominant story for a weeks now. Even with the media's bias, they can't resist a good drama, and this is good drama.
They do this every year anyway, when a million pro-lifers brave DC in January to mark the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade on the National Mall.
I see your point, but that's a little different, since there's no immediate context and build-up as there has been with the Sheehan thing. Unlike the Roe rally, this 3000-person counterprotest represents the latest twist in a plot line which the media has been reporting on for weeks, breathlessly. To not cover this would be to break continuity in a way that not covering the Roe rally wasn't. The lack of coverage just seems really, really strange -- more than would be explainable only by the media's bias, I think.
On the other hand, the hurricane is giving them a reason to skip the live coverage. Maybe it comes down to bad weather.