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Scary part is that the protests within America were not covered, or were barely mentioned.
The 20th was Trump's inauguration + MLK, so a LOT of people marched across the US. That said, most of the coverage is from small local papers and broadcasters. The big new orgs shied away.
The revolution will NOT be televised
Every time someone posts the latest daily poll that shows change is impossible and what they're predicting is inevitable, I need to remember that quote.
Scary part is that the protests within America were not covered, or were barely mentioned.
You can NOT rely on the media to cover the important stuff, or to tell you what is important. This is because (1) the billion owned media wants you do be apathetic so they can get gigantic GOP tax cuts for the rich, and (2) the average journalist does not have any special skill set in letting them know what is important, and (3) journalists and editors are lazy and only cover what other outlets are covering.
You have to work extra hard to understand reality, and things like Lemmy help with that.
Because protests accomplish absolutely nothing in America without violence. The billionaires are nice and comfy in their ivory towers, they have no concern for the peasants on the streets. If they are comfortable then nothing changes.
The violent protests didn't do shit either, they just pissed off the rest of the citizenship. When protests turn to violence, all too often it's against the businesses that the shops that the peasants frequent.
Also true, those are the wrong targets. There's a much more pragmatic approach.
And if the prospective protestors are comfortable, they'll stop short of their goals. Perhaps very short, if they start at all.
How do people even hear about protests in order to participate? I really hope it's not Facebook.
I saw signs around Portland for a January 21 protest. From what I've heard, it was a lot smaller than what Portland saw in 2017. It's hard to read the tea leaves on why that is.
There's a protest in Chicago today: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/protesters-rally-against-trumps-policies-trump-tower/
Just wait for the German Fasching (Carnival) parades, we will bring back the floats depicting Don taking it up the ass from Vlad.
LOLOLO! That was one of the floats! Danke!
They've got their work cut out for them this year! Now that the US government has gone full fucking Nazi I'm expecting some well-deserved brutally scathing criticism.
This is being presented as a sort of cover-up, but the fact of the matter is that most protests never get much attention unless they are extraordinary in scale or in regards to any violence, or anything else. There will always be some protests, so that begs the question, is this always newsworthy? Trump is inaugurated and quite some people don't like this... well aint that surprising? No. I don't think it's a cover up, I think it's deemed rather irrelevant, obvious, nothing out of the ordinary. Had the protests been more massive in scale perhaps that would be different though. Or had people stormed the capitol,. ouch....
The majority of our media outlets are not covering any dissent about Trump. All major social media companies are censoring negative information about Trump. This is purposeful and blatant. The media is most definitely helping this administration to manufacture consent.
This is nothing new though as the media has helped project bizarre concepts like the US is the defender of democracy for decades. In fact, the US has done more to stop Democracy than any other country.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/understanding-democratic-decline-in-the-united-states/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/18/american-democracy-political-system-failures/
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1240435.shtml
Not only is US democracy in decline because of concerted efforts to undermine it by the wealthy, but this is also projected around the world with the US attacking and destroying foreign democracies.
So it is a cover up and it has been going on a long time. The US is not the country it portrays itself to be and that takes a universal effort in our media to help project.
Is this newsworthy is not the question. Who determines what is newsworthy is the question.
This is starting to become scary
Starting?!
This is the first time I heard that anything like that happened. And I do not live in America.
Yes, it was on news@lemmy.world
Eight years ago 500,000 marched in DC against Trump. He has returned and so has the protest - just on a smaller scale
I mean there were a bunch of posters about it all over my neighborhood
Nope, I haven't seen a single news article about it. Guess our propaganda machine is better than we thought it was.
Seems like it hasn't been this bad since when Bush launched Iraq war 2... basically every major city in the US and Europe had huge protests, and it got almost exactly 0 coverage outside of local news covering your local city.
Now all the local news in the US are just Sinclair subsidiaries/franchises.
I did see an article about the big blimp making a comeback in UK, not sure when that was though. Around a week ago I think. Ironically it felt like it was trying hard not to say protest.
What the hell, I had no idea. I heard nothing.
Now everyone will hear something.
I saw nothing about this as an American living in a blue state.
Completely ignored by all UK media but the Guardian.
Havent heard about this either. But I live in Switzerland, so I'am quite confident the newssites and agencies were occupied with covering all the shit that went down during inauguartion and the few days before and after it. Plus our Europe and National and Regional news. So I am not really surprised to missing it.
We didn't notice because we were too busy holding back tears.
Florida man reporting... I heard nothing of this from my usual news outlets, apnews, CNN, NPR.....zero
Wow, thanks for the support everyone. We’ll try to hold out for the next four years
I mean… the world is pretty much protesting against trump every day.