Subj:  lack of coverage of inauguration demonstrators
Date: 01/24/2001 11:42:41 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Gil

Dear rich people who are on TV every night:

I find it ludicrous that your coverage of Mr. bush's inauguration failed so miserably to make mention of the 30,000 Americans who chose to display their displeasure and anger at the inauguration parade.  What little was said in your coverage was purely dismissive and condescending.

This number of people protesting the inauguration of a first term president is unprecedented in the united states history.  Even Richard Nixon had a first term full of mistakes, lies and Vietnam to get his protestors riled up.  All Mr. Bush did was get elected by a margin of 5 to 4 in the Supreme Court.

Unlike the "fringe" elements of old hippies and WTO turtle-huggers that you rich people in the media made the demonstrators out to be, they were in reality a diverse collection of Americans, mainly from quote-unquote "middle" America (what the hell does that mean anyway?  which rich person who is on TV every night thought up that meaningless phrase?).  People --  white, black, Latino, Asian -- from every walk of life, every religion, all representing America, much more than Mr. bush and his cohorts ever will, and even much more than all you rich people who are on TV every night.

You might think since I continue to call you rich people, I am concerned with class struggle.  No more than the next guy.  But I am concerned with so-called journalists whose net worth make them, consciously or not, ignore the vast majority of middle and  lower class Americans, who in theory own the very airwaves you rich people monopolize every night.  It's the Peter Principle, stupid.  You can't possible care enough about people poorer than yourselves to actually converse with, report on, and serve, such constituents (how ironic that the airwaves supposedly belong to us people!  Theoretically, you should be working for us!  ha! ha!  What a good laugh you rich people are having right now, thinking of that paradox!)

You ignore the American majority at your peril.

It would do you well to get one of your lackeys (probably an intern who is fresh out of college and is working for free) to start investigating the story of the deep resentment running through America now towards Mr. Bush.  Sooner or later one of you rich people will do a story on it, and then, what with the herd mentality that you have, all of you rich people on TV will want to talk about it.  Why not be the first?

Notice how many signatures, emails, phone calls and letters came to the senatorial offices opposing john Ashcroft?  That's us.  Look into it.  It's a real story.

We will not go away just because rich people on TV don't want to talk about us.

Sincerely,

Gil <SNIP>

P.S. Could some one please put a sock in Chris Matthews mouth?

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