Jane Hamsher at FDL spells out the news media's delinquency:

Organizations like CBS and the New York Times do not report the news when it is right in front of them. They pass off these transparent lobbyist funded thuggery as a grassroots effort. They do not say who is organizing these violent uprisings, or how they are being funded. These media outlets are playing a critical role by telling the country that its people believe something that they don't. It is blatant propaganda being passed off as news, and it is to “journalism” what David H. Koch is to “grassroots.”

UPDATED: Irony alert. During the run-up to the Iraq War when tens, and often hundreds, of thousands of anti-war activists gathered to voice their opinion, the press often seemed to go out of its way to downplay the significance.

But today when a few dozen Tea Party protesters form town hall min-mobs, the press seems anxious to assign great meaning.