http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=995488A conservative media watchdog organization says the mainstream media has once again demonstrated its hypocrisy with the manner it has treated Tea Party participants in comparison to illegal alien protestors in Arizona.
The Media Research Center (MRC) finds a dramatic difference between how Tea Party protestors have been portrayed by the media compared to those protesting Arizona's new tough anti-illegal immigration law. The watchdog organization believes ABC derided March's Tea Party rallies as "ugly," despite the fact that there were no arrests. Meanwhile, the same network downplayed the actual violence of protestors in Arizona as "mostly peaceful."
Tim GrahamTim Graham, director of media analysis at the MRC, says this is a case of reality-versus-myth.
"They tried to suggest [the actions of] the Tea Party protestors were going to lead to violence. [But] the rallies in Arizona have actually led to violence, with them lobbing water bottles at the police [and] hitting one of them on the head," he reports. "You could see it...on television. You wouldn't see it, of course, on national television, but you could see it looking at the Internet stories from Phoenix."
He continues to explain that the mainstream media has created a "myth on one hand -- the idea that the Tea Parties might at some point spur violence. And then you have the reality of violent protestors at a rally for illegal aliens. They print the myth and ignore the reality."
Graham also contends that the media is giving illegal aliens a forum to which they are not entitled. "They are allowing illegal aliens to vote in the democracy....They shouldn't really have the right to try to change our policy when they're not even citizens," he argues.
The MRC spokesman believes demonization of the Tea Party movement will grow more intense as the fall elections approach.
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