“Turn on ANY major college football game this Saturday and you’ll see “big” and “massive” crowds - twenty times the size of this turnout.”
By Dell Hill
Brent Baker, writing at MRC, suggests the media is so supportive of the OWS communist agenda that they’re seriously upgrading the descriptive adjectives.
Substitute ABC anchor David Muir opened Thursday’s World News by hyping “masses of people taking to the streets here in New York City,” before reporter Dan Harris referenced “this massive protest march tonight” and “this big protest.”
Yet over on the CBS Evening News, Jim Axelrod noted how though “organizers promised tens of thousands demonstrators disrupting business as usual here in New York,” they didn’t show up: “Frankly, we’ve seen a fraction of that number -- closer to a thousand.”
NBC came in somewhere in between with anchor Brian Williams touting “thousands on the move” and reporter Mike Taibbi acknowledging “the Occupy Wall Street movement had promised huge crowds for its day of action,” then asserting “that prediction finally looked realistic a short time ago. Now some 5,000 protesters, union members and supporters are gathered in Foley Square.”
Since when is a crowd of 5,000 “huge”?”
And Brent makes an excellent point. If just 5,000 showed up at this Sunday’s NFL game, you’d say “the place was empty”. Having considerable experience with crowds - large and small - I can tell you that “big” and “massive” are not even close to the words a responsible news agency would report. Turn on ANY major college football game this Saturday and you’ll see “big” and “massive” crowds - twenty times the size of this turnout.
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