Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Washington Post Home Page Buries Massive 9-12 Rally in Teeny-Weeny Type

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Sunday morning the Washington Post covered the 9-12 DC rally - but one had to look amazingly hard to spot it:

The top headline was "U.S. to Give More Rights to Afghan Inmates."

Below that, an evergreen story on "Wall Street Goes to Washington."

Scroll down, and the next headline is "In Minn., Obama Pushes Reform."

If you look hard underneath that, in small type: "Lashing Out at the Capitol."

But if you didn’t know that was the 9-12 rally story, you’d think the Post skipped it entirely. There’s a camera icon and four photos are rotating in the upper left corner of the home page, but none of them are about national politics.

Go figure.

[Oh cut them some slack, their reporters would have traveled all the way from - Washington - to cover the story.]

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