On Wisconsin

Skip the Mainstream Media: Go Local


Allegations of bias in the local media regarding their reporting of yesterday's events in Wisconsin have begun popping up. According to local Madison media pro-union protestors out-numbered "tea party" demonstrators by a margin of something like 68-1! The Wisconsin State Journal (on line) reports today that yesterday's protestors numbered about 68,000 people while another source put the tea party counter-protestors at only some 1,000 people.*

To listen to major media, one would have thought the tea party was emerging from the woodwork to rescue the public interest and save The Union from cataclysmic chaos, in something like equal numbers.

The fight song of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is "On Wisconsin!" This can also be the fight song of Wisconsin workers as they battle for simple human fairness. As one twenty-four-year-old protestor put it: to fight for the right to collective bargaining is to fight for the right to participate in our democracy. I agree!


* John Nichols writes today at The Nation web site that the Tea Party people claim to have had several thousand in attendance. Whatever the exact numbers the ratio was not favorable for the "tea drinkers."

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In honor of Wisconsin workers who are showing a true fighting spirit:






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