Thread by @hradzka

So, let's talk about this article for a bit:
buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgan…

* Debbie Wassermann Schultz aiding Tallahassee lobbying

* Teacher's union getting buses to Tallahassee

* Bloomberg's guys and Women's March working on march

* MoveOn on social media promotion, offer of march logistics

* Planned Parenthood doing trainings for student activists

This is what organization that gets results actually looks like. Not a bunch of magical kids in somebody's living room. And it was right off the bat; Wassermann Schultz was there working hard on day 2.

The president of the American Federation of Teachers tells Buzzfeed they're also behind the national school walkout. I'd thought teachers were supposed to get kids *into* school, but maybe that's just me.

But what strikes me about all this isn't the organization -- if you start reading books about organizing, it becomes pretty clear how all this works.

What strikes me is that *no journalist covering the story wrote about this stuff for two weeks.*

Every story on the organizing for two weeks was about the kids. I lost track of the number of bluechecks I've seen rhapsodizing over the Parkland kids, and how organized they were, and how effective. The WSJ said it was because they were born on social media; it was instinctive.

But this stuff isn't instinctive. It's skilled work; you have to learn how to do it, and it takes really a lot of people. You don't just get a few magical kids who're amazing and naturally good at it.

The big tip-off for *anybody* should have been the $500K donations from Oprah and George Clooney. They don't give money on a whim; somebody they knew called them and asked.

JOURNALISTS. "Wowwww, these kiiiiiids"

Anyway, now that the organizations are more open about their involvement, at some point the Parkland kids will go into the background a bit in media exposure terms, the same way Deray and Linda Sarsour did. That's part of how organizing fame works these days.

The big takeaway on this: for two weeks, journalists abjectly failed in their jobs, which is to tell the public what's going on. And if any of them had any familiarity with organizing campaigns, they absolutely knew.

Also, let me point out something that's damning: *none of the Righty outlets writing about Parkland picked up on the orgs, either.*

Righties need to learn how organizing works, and prominent righties need to educate their people on the subject. Because ignorance is damaging.