...news on the weekends (other than Sunday morning and 60 Minutes).  MSNBC doesn't even program the weekends, and CNN and FOX each tend to air re-runs of analysis shows that first ran during the week, and third-tier talk shows like D.L. Hughley's and Mike Huckabee's.  A weekend TYT protest would probably draw a bigger crowd, but a very limited viewing audience.  If, on the other hand, TYT protested in New York on a Tuesday morning and it _was_ covered as a grass-roots counterbalance to the lunatics, Soledad shows footage of it.  Then Wolf, then Rick, then Campbell, then Anderson.  (The theme of this network, apparently, is "incompetent sell-out journalists with exotic first names").  It would get cycled into the wallpaper footage of the day.

  Weekdays have the best chance for success in this endeavor.
 

by Milltycoon on 11/07/2009 12:49:16 AM EST

in order to get a big enough turnout to get on T.V. at all you need it to be on the weekend.  The 9/12 DC thing was on a saturday and it was covered extensively, and I attended a rally for the public option in DC on a sunday that drew 1500-2000 people from all over the country with very little promotion.  If TYT got the word out for something a month or two in advance on a weekend, it could get big enough for them to cover it and make waves in the political spheres.

by alienufo on 11/07/2009 02:12:40 AM EST

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