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Cake day: November 13th, 2024

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  • There were two telling things for me in the coverage.

    First, it was always “thousands” of people at the event. Not tens of thousands like in Boston. Not something on the order of 100,000 or more in NYC (it stretched for 20 BLOCKS). All over the media “thousands” of protesters. Not “millions attend Anti-Trump rallies across US cities” like the National Post wrote.

    The coverage tried to make it sound like this was 1,200 mostly insignificant protests across the country.

    Second, most of the news websites weren’t covering it live. And when it finally made the front page later that day or the next morning, it was 2/3/4 stories down.

    Now … compare that to what happened in South Korea. Yes, a very different ballgame, but it was halfway across the world and ALL of the news media were treating it as breaking news and halting all other coverage.

    That protest had about 1 million people.

    Our protests had about 5,000,000 people across the country.

    It should have been covered as a much bigger deal.