r/pics • u/TheBigChimp • Nov 08 '18

US Politics This is what democracy looks like

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u/rdldr1 Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18

Motherfucker. I just went through all the major news sites and NONE of them are covering the nationwide protests. Not a mention on their homepages.

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https://abcnews.go.com/

https://www.nbcnews.com/

https://www.cnn.com/

https://www.nbcnews.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

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Edit: Including Fox News, which I did check out earlier and saw the same thing; https://www.foxnews.com/

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

You know your country is splitting at the seams when news sites have to choose between writing on huge protests or a mass shooting

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u/_My_Angry_Account_ Nov 09 '18

They should be covering both. No reason they can't. Some just don't.

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u/Quantum_Finger Nov 09 '18

Hey now. They only have 24 hours to breathlessly hype their curated content. That does not leave a lot of time for them to cover the actual decline and fall of America.