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... taken from a drone which I just now posted in my diary - (Update x 3) September 21st NYC People's Climate March - Videos, Media Coverage, and Diaries.

How could NPR or other media outlets not cover this event adequately?

They are part of the oligarchy

NPR Board of Directors

Weekend edition had a lengthy piece on it this morning and I would imagine that given the timing of the march it will be covered in the morning tomorrow as often is the case of events.   Also as noted it is the #2 item on the front page of the NPR site.

So "non coverage"?   That word doesn't mean what you seem to think its means

And yeah, if you don't have ire to vent you haven't been paying attention.  

Like Meteor Blades' sigline says- "... show me what you do and I will tell you what you believe in".

NPR covers very important people. The very important people that NPR covers make policy or own very important businesses and they all sit in corner offices.

4 years ago media was all over the tea party protests that numbered in the 100's...whoa! They put a mic their faces and tada! A movment was born.

300,000 march in the biggest city in the country and they don't cover it. So it didn't happen, they call the shots. I'll read about it on page 8 or 9 of my local paper tomorrow.

Yeah, I get pretty cynical sometimes.

this evening.  They'll probably do so much coverage around the UN Climate Summit meetings this week.

NY Times had front page coverage on their website today.

fantastic campaign slogan.  

Give the Kochs a nightmare:  Vote.

I can't stand listening to that station.

as did PBS. I'm more concerned about the fact that there seemed to be no one at all there from NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN or even MSNBC. Because if they don't cover it, 80 percent of the public will never know about it.

from the NY Times

I expect someone to say that this comment is off topic

and also, don't criticize our leader

well, there have been trillions already spent on wars of choice in the middle east and the estimates at the time they started was that that amount of money could have slowed the growth of carbon in the world

and what would happen to our economy if the government had not given the banks $12 trillion dollars?

what about even $1 trillion into the US economy and energy rather than transfer of money to the military surveillance industrial complex

who, by the way, own the media

now we are looking at spending trillions of dollars for the insanity of using nuclear weapons to destroy humanity

does humanity deserve to survive????

It is part of a nationwide wave of atomic revitalization that includes plans for a new generation of weapon carriers. A recent federal study put the collective price tag, over the next three decades, at up to a trillion dollars.

This expansion comes under a president who campaigned for “a nuclear-free world” and made disarmament a main goal of American defense policy. The original idea was that modest rebuilding of the nation’s crumbling nuclear complex would speed arms refurbishment, raising confidence in the arsenal’s reliability and paving the way for new treaties that would significantly cut the number of warheads.

story link on Google News.  It got me excited, thinking that Eric Holder was finally doing his job.

Oh, well....

IMHO, NPR has wayyyy too much international news. The large segment today regarding the ebola crisis in Sierra Leone is a prime example.

Yes, this is an important issue, but it's not more important than over 300,000 people showing up in Manhattan to draw attention to climate change and the Climate Summit meeting this week.

But to be fair, NPR does have shows throughout the day like the Diane Rehm show and To The Point where there will likely be in depth coverage this week of the march and the Climate Summit meeting.

regardless, I wonder if anyone will bother mentioning this:

The rally comes just two days before the United Nations hosts many of the world's leaders at its Climate Summit in New York. Leaders of India and China, however, will not be attending.

I read an article last week indicating unless China stops burning coal NOW; what the rest of the world does to reduce their carbon load won't matter much.

http://www.alternet.org/...

But it was all about how divided Congress is, and how controversial rapid climate breakdown is among different political persuasions, and how Republicans don't think it's a serious problem blahblahblah.  I thought it was 1990 for a second.

Oh, but missing major events is nothing new for them.  I personally heard the pre-Iraq War broadcast which talked about "hundreds" of protestors on the streets of DC - this was the same day as the biggest of the Iraq protests.

That was so pathetic that even NPR got on the air and apologized for it - days later, of course.

but if they do not give it an extended piece today I think they will deserve your criticism

NPR is no longer about breaking news, but about longer pieces that take time to write/produce

on the Daily Kos "front page," either, sad to say.

Koch public radio.

They sold out a long time ago because.

Don't give a nickel to NPR.  A false friend is far worse than a frank enemy.  Defund their cowardly asses.

It's not news unless something nasty happens. Half a mil marching in Manhatten, meh, so what else is new.

Half a mil storming the Exxon world headquarters and tearing it to shreds. Now that would be news.

We are under attack people, and the media is on the side of our adversaries. Wake up and smell the coffee. If you want attention from the media, give them a reason to pay attention. Don't have the stomach for it? Then don't whine when they don't pay attention, because they never will and all your marching and chanting will accomplish exactly squat.

industries such as "America's Natural Gas" at thinkaboutit.org
so they do have some conflict of interest.

All these comments slamming NPR...

Consider this: I live out in the sticks, and I only get two stations clearly--KSUT(a NPR affiliate), owned by the Southern Ute Tribe and Tribal Radio, also owned by them.

While I may disagree with much of what NPR does, without them, I would have to purchase either a internet radio or a Sat radio. Ad yes--I know I can stream radio stations. But I love my KSUT coming through my stereo...

About 85% of the all American Media outlets are controlled by Mitt Romney , Koch Brothers or Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Once they gain control of the Internet by overturning net neutrality they last venue of Free speech in America will vanish. We will have a virtural state television and Radio Outlet brought to you by the "United Corporations of America"

The Right wing Echo chamber is the Best money can buy.

Since the Repugs legalized using Propaganda on United States Citizen, they are making full use of it.

take a look at this to see what is happening here with the Media.... the report is about our media as well

BBC bias and the Scots referendum - new report

Thanks to Stupid Grin Ronnie, & his idea of government providing the "spark" but PRIVATE INTERESTS doing the rest, this is what we now get from "public" broadcasting in the U.S.

When NPR was actually NPR. Now it's a Koch Brothers subsidiary.

letter of protest about this outrageous omission to NPR. Thanks for writing this.

This should have been front page news on NPR.  In fact, I haven't heard much about climate change on NPR at all.  Could it be all their prime donors and/or board of directors, i.e. (gasp!) anti-climate Koch's have anything to do with it?  On another subject, watching the documentary "The Roosevelts, I was appalled Ken Burns had one of the most anti-liberal journalists, George Will, as one of the commentators.  Sheesh!  Spoiled the whole thing.  

... Earlier this year, I recall NPR coverage for the documentary "CItizen Koch" being toned down when they were in the process of courting a $20M donation from guess who?

Probably similar dynamics in this case. Can't get on the wrong side of Moloch if you want His continued favor.

...was Hoda Kotb in the last hour complain she had to sit in traffic after her three day vacation.

After the march on Sunday, Mr. Rose basically noted on the 5PM WNYC newscast only the large number of "left-wing" groups in the march.  He never really mentioned the size or diversity or even international participation in the march.

KQED covered it. I was listening to it in my car, as a matter of fact. Also PBS news hour covered. it.

They do not need to go all right wing. Just slip it to you slowly. And by under statement. And NPR slowly moves to where they can start classes on the creation. Money floats to the top.

Sounds like you folks at NPR should hire Rush Limbaugh.  It would improve your objectivity.