{"id":1640,"date":"2010-09-28T14:36:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/09\/28\/post-covers-one-nation-plans\/"},"modified":"2010-09-28T14:36:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:36:35","slug":"post-covers-one-nation-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/09\/28\/post-covers-one-nation-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Covers ‘One Nation’ Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably just coincidence, but after my call to The Washington Post<\/em> yesterday pointing out<\/a> that the New York Times <\/em>had written about the progressive rally<\/a> planned for this weekend, but there was no word about it in the paper of record of the town in which it is being held.<\/p>\n

This morning, a story has been posted<\/a> on The Post\u2019s<\/em> web site.  This \u2018graph cracks me up:<\/p>\n

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Unlike Beck’s rally, in which overt politics took a back seat to religious and patriotic themes <\/strong>[emphasis added], the progressive groups will repeatedly remind attendees at their rally to vote in November’s mid-term elections, said Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of AFL-CIO. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Religion and patriotism is <\/em>politics to those on the right-wing fringe.<\/p>\n

This, alas, is true.<\/p>\n

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It is unclear how many people will make it to Washington for the rally, but organizers’ expectations are high. Last week, the rally’s leaders were still trying to raise money to bring 50,000 students to the event. A plan by Comedy Central television hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to hold dueling rallies on Oct. 30 could appeal to some potential One Nation participants, creating a less-than-desirable competition for liberal-leaning would-be activists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But let\u2019s recall, The Post <\/em>has an unfortunate history over the last decade of giving prominence to conservative rallies and shorting progressive ones.  When I wrote about this earlier this year<\/a>, I also had an exchange of emails with Post<\/em> ombudsman Andy Alexander, who argued that the reason tiny protests (2,000 on the Mall and 50 gun-activists at Gravelly Point) received such attention in the paper was because they were local and that those groups\u2019 PR people had predicted a large turnout.  Four reporters assisted in the coverage.  Let\u2019s see what this weekend\u2019s marches get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Probably just coincidence, but after my call to The Washington Post yesterday pointing out that the New York Times had written about the progressive rally planned for this weekend, but there was no word about it in the paper of record of the town in which it is being held. This morning, a story has… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[164,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}