Revolt spreads across the globe as the econoomic crisis continues - US news blackout

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:43 pm

http://www.gnn.tv/articles/3954/Revolt_ ... _to_Unfold

http://gnn.tv/headlines/19525/2_5_Milli ... _In_France

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... rsday.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7857435.stm

Does anyone have any American news links to any of these stories?

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:16 pm

Nope. BBC stuff and NPR radio. No links from either

David · Post by **David** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:24 pm

NPR in the AM for me as well, not all that certain if their ws has linkage.

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:26 am

Does this one count? Seems like all of these links are from the far left.

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?sto ... 3191403882

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:59 pm

Look at the date, it's old news. The strike was on January 29th this year. With that in mind, it's easy to find mentioning of it in some random major US news sources as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/world ... ike&st=nyt
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123326293710030117.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009 ... rike_N.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/stud ... search#two

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:50 pm

SeedOfChaos wrote:Look at the date, it's old news. The strike was on January 29th this year. With that in mind, it's easy to find mentioning of it in some random major US news sources as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/world ... ike&st=nyt
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123326293710030117.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009 ... rike_N.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/stud ... search#two

It's news that is 39 days old that is under-reported here in the US by mainstream media.

Just as American mainstream media isn't reporting on the avian bird flu vaccine being contaminated with live avian bird flu in Europe right now.

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:11 pm

I did not find a mention of it on Fox News, for example, that much is true. But I don't know if I would call it under-reported given two things. One is the easy access to the info - on mainstream media sources, or would you not call the NY Times or USA today mainstream? The other thing is France's propensity to call a strike... they do it VERY often for lots of different things. Noteworthy? Sure! Headlines for days? Hardly.

That Baxter/bird flu story may be different, but I wasn't talking about that, I was responding to your OP. And I don't see it as underreported in the US. Actually, I was surprised to find how much it was publicized, given the average US ignorance of the rest of the world.

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:28 pm

SeedOfChaos wrote:I did not find a mention of it on Fox News, for example, that much is true. But I don't know if I would call it under-reported given two things. One is the easy access to the info - on mainstream media sources, or would you not call the NY Times or USA today mainstream? The other thing is France's propensity to call a strike... they do it VERY often for lots of different things. Noteworthy? Sure! Headlines for days? Hardly.

That Baxter/bird flu story may be different, but I wasn't talking about that, I was responding to your OP. And I don't see it as underreported in the US. Actually, I was surprised to find how much it was publicized, given the average US ignorance of the rest of the world.

ronald,

I can't even find the Europe section on the NY Times lol. That's how they do it...they bury it here for us. the sad fact is, we know about it after the fact when we really should be leading the way.

Americans should be peacefully assembling to demonstrate our desire for accountability.

We are the greatest country on the planet and we don't exercise our rights....all while allowing our rights to be exchanged for privileges.

It's absolutely sickening.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:55 pm

I don't think it's a blackout because of some devious plot but because Americans are apathetic to anyone's plight but our own.

There are stories in my own paper and sometimes you see something on the nightly news but keep in mind that it's a business. As such, the major outlets will go with what they fell Americans will tune into.

Gives me a good reason to listen to NPR.

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:57 pm

JawZ wrote:ronald,

I can't even find the Europe section on the NY Times lol. That's how they do it...they bury it here for us. the sad fact is, we know about it after the fact when we really should be leading the way.

Americans should be peacefully assembling to demonstrate our desire for accountability.

We are the greatest country on the planet and we don't exercise our rights....all while allowing our rights to be exchanged for privileges.

It's absolutely sickening.

Well, you first click on "World", then on "Europe".

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/europe/index.html

It's usually not that hard, actually, just takes the will to find it. I think Downhill is quite spot on with his comment.

I agree with the rest of your post though, I just thought this story was the wrong example.

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:44 pm

Our Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Canada said today that Canada was the last country to feel the economic pinch, and that we would be the first country to recover???

Political promises, gotta love em.

jeremyboycool · Post by **jeremyboycool** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:31 pm

You know what I find disturbing is the way some people vindictively demoralize their own country with fear mongering and propaganda; it is very depressing.

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:54 pm

SeedOfChaos wrote:Well, you first click on "World", then on "Europe".

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/europe/index.html

It's usually not that hard, actually, just takes the will to find it. I think Downhill is quite spot on with his comment.

I agree with the rest of your post though, I just thought this story was the wrong example.

I don't goto the NY Times unless a story on another site is linked to it. Since most of the sites are just regurgitating AP syndication, I don't find the reporting to be any different amongst the mainstream sites.

I'm big on leveraging social media to find news as it happens. I use a combination of twitter, friendfeed, digg, googlenews, facebook, linkedin, googlenews and google alerts. I subscribe to multiple keyword alerts for the things that I want to be on top of. the benefit to watching hundreds of people at once on the social media sites is that you can see trends in almost everything before it hits mainstream news. I was all over the avian bird flu as it broke and even saw the bloomberg.com report on it before they pulled it....which was really saddening.

I hope that more people see how the power of people can level any playing field, all they have to do is participate.

so yeah, I don't find the nytimes.com Europe section easily because I'm moving away from the grid and into the social space. I'd rather get my news from the people than a corporate driven machine. Hopefully, the social media space will produce new media outlets that restore journalistic integrity.

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:01 am

jeremyboycool wrote:You know what I find disturbing is the way some people vindictively demoralize their own country with fear mongering and propaganda; it is very depressing.

Heh, I AM CANADIAN!

Not from Australia, but I do love the religious propoganda.

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:06 pm

Watch your news today - there was another general strike in France today, with even more participation than the one in January. See if you can find it. For us it's prime time tv news. Our TV news (ARD - Germany, quite arguably #1 TV news) said 1,500,000 people according to the police, 3,000,000 according to some of the unions. Wikipedia says 65 milion in total for France, so 2,5 - 5 % of the population... that would be roughly equivalent to 7,5 -15 milion in the US...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/world ... ref=europe

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:28 pm

SeedOfChaos wrote:Watch your news today - there was another general strike in France today, with even more participation than the one in January. See if you can find it. For us it's prime time tv news. Our TV news (ARD - Germany, quite arguably #1 TV news) said 1,500,000 people according to the police, 3,000,000 according to some of the unions. Wikipedia says 65 milion in total for France, so 2,5 - 5 % of the population... that would be roughly equivalent to 7,5 -15 milion in the US...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/world ... ref=europe

Bloomberg is carrying the story but states that it's only thousands lol.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... fer=europe

See...I'm telling you man, the US is too scared to run stories like this.

EDIT: Also, CNN is carrying it...not in the World news section, but rather in the World Business news section.

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:32 pm

The NY Times did not name any numbers either, or did I just miss them?

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:50 pm

SeedOfChaos wrote:The NY Times did not name any numbers either, or did I just miss them?

I've read it twice and didn't see any numbers either. It's by design, to diminish the impact of such action.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:53 pm

Comes up quickly in google world news(Ya I know not quitemainstream media... yet

).