Thread by @malinablue

Please don't take this the wrong way - I was at a Lights for Liberty event & very glad to see these events taking place nationwide. But I was disappointed - considering where we are - that most protests numbered in the 100s, not 1000s & not hundreds of 1000s.

This is a country of nearly 330 million people. We didn't even break 1%.

Things are DIRE - democracy is being dismantled right before our eyes. People, including children, are dying in cages. We are watching GOP rig the next election already.

We should be out in the streets every damn day by the hundreds of 1000s. Hong Kong can get 37.5% of its population out for multiple protests and we can't get even 1% of us out to save our democracy & the lives of children?

https://twitter.com/malinablue/status/1146225562983239680

I blame mainstream media for much of this. Yes, they're covering the stories, but newspapers like @washingtonpost & @nytimes are burying the real news under misleading headlines & an overall air of normalcy that is a lie. Regular networks are doing this too.

I visited my mother today & was startled to see how little she knew of what was going on. She is NOT a Fox "News" propaganda viewer. She gets a daily local newspaper & watches the 3 major non-cable networks for news. She hadn't a clue about what's happening.

She didn't know what significance was of Trump claiming there can be no congressional oversight. She didn't get how serious it is he was defying SCOTUS. She didn't even realize he wasn't exonerated. I repeat - she's NOT watching Fox & she IS watching news daily, reading a paper.

She was unaware of all the corruption in Trump's administration. She didn't know how awful the conditions are in the camps. She didn't even realize how many children have been taken & how different this is from pre-Trump years. Yet she watches & reads news every day.

We forget how little non-Twitter folks know. We're watching MSNBC, which DOES report this stuff, & getting a constant barrage of news.

Most people aren't. Democracy isn't dying in the dark - it's dying in broad daylight. Mainstream media is not sounding alarms.

Let's talk about the very serious shit simply not being covered by mainstream media.

1) Neo-nazis & white supremacists. These guys make up a significant part of Trump's base, yet mainstream media largely ignores it. We get multiple feature stories on "understanding" Trump voters

2) Resistance. When have we ever had a president who inspired multiple #Resistance networks to spring up nationwide? Where are the stories about us - the feature stories on understanding why millions of us are stressed, afraid, angry? Why are protests barely covered?

3) Corruption. Yes, media does cover the corruption, but barely. The stories are in the news & out of the news in a day. Yes, that's partly because there are so damn MANY of them, but maybe that could warrant a front-page story as well - the insane amount of ongoing corruption.

Let me break in & remind you all - I'm talking about the news most people, particularly older people, get - print newspapers & network news. We receive 3 papers at our home - @nytimes, @washingtonpost & @baltimoresun. I'm daily shocked at how major stories are buried in them.

We have an AG who's protecting the president, even lying about contents of special counsel report & hiding full report from us.

DON'T forget - we STILL haven't seen full report, only what Barr gave us. MSM isn't properly covering this. Sometimes even I forget we've not seen it.