Neil Cavuto preemptively critiques news coverage of April 15 "tea parties"
April 10, 2009 10:55 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Maybe that's the future of conservative media criticism: pan the evil liberal media for its coverage before it happens.
Here's Cavuto yesterday, hyping next week's, right-wing anti-Obama rallies:
You might have heard we're going to be out in Sacramento a week or so from now to cover the tea party protest on the 15th. You might have heard a lot of news organizations are not going to be there. I know why we are there. I'm not sure why they are not. Apparently these populist protests don't count much for them. Millions concerned that they are being taxed to death concerns them even less.
So Cavuto has inside information on how news orgs across the country are going to cover an event "a week or so" from now? That's a nifty trick.
P.S. Did Cavuto really predict that "millions" will participate in the anti-government events next week?
How come Fox didn't host any anti-war protests? Apparently those populist protests didn't count much for them. Millions were concerned that are our troops were in a senseless war based on lies and false intelligence and manipulated data.
And how can he predict how and when other media sources will cover this? I suspect we will see wall to wall coverage on FoxNews, and other media outlets will do stories on the protests, but the other media sources will be somehow "biased" because they didn't spend enough time on covering the protests.
Again, I don't know what will happen, but it's a safe guess that this will be Fox's approach.
As I posted in another thread:
Actually, it was 36% who said they would be "be willing to join a symbolic tea party."
The percentage who are GOING to attend a very real "tea party" is of course much, much smaller.
This has inspired an upcoming promo on FNC...
"Whether it's a million or 100K, count on Fox News in inflate the numbers!"
Yes, RSVPs and Web polls are both well established accurate sources of data.
Hey Neal, you do realize that most of those people there wont be taxed to death by anything? Most of them probably dont even clear 40k, let alone represent the upper 1% that seemed to do quite well under the 39% tax rate that they had under Clinton and now are going back to.
Know about what you are protesting and getting up at arms about folks.
If other news organizations aren't going to be there, maybe it's because they're concerned that that they'll be treated like Channel 12 News reporter Angela Ingram was when she tried to cover the Cincinnati "tea party" in March.
Here's a disturbing video of her being harassed by protesters for trying to get footage of a pro-Obama demonstrator. (In fact, she didn't even do that. They were apparently confusing her with another station's reporter.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2tW1_ovjzM
Despite this, she gave a sympathetic report about the protest, and even thanked the "tea party" organizer who interceded on her behalf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL3uM9ikVIg
This makes FNC officially part of the opposition to the Obama administration. They will now have to be held responsible for things like these which I GUARANTEE you will find at these faux rallies:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3620/3427455136_dfe9eda00e.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3590/3427455080_f492cdc455.jpg
I, too, can predict the local TV news coverage on April 15th.
The anchor will intro a story reminding viewers of the annual deadline for filing taxes, and will throw to a field reporter interviewing someone in a long line of procrastinators standing outside a post office open until midnight.
The reporter will throw in a comment about how to file for an extension, and the anchor will add a tidbit about how taxpayers have to work until April 13th to make enough money to pay their taxes.
And on to the weather.