Michael Warren at Weekly Standard:
Wednesday was Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, and Americans flocked to the fast food restaurant in response to criticism of COO Dan Cathy's opposition to same-sex marriage (as well as threats from the mayorsof some major cities). The photos of long lines and traffic jams reveal the extent of the restaurant's support--for some it's about traditional values and for others it's about freedom of religious exercise and speech in the face of government intimidation. There are even rumors that Chick-fil-A set a new world record for sales in a single day, though the company has yet to release any sales numbers.
But you wouldn't know anything about the national phenomenon by reading the front pages of most of the country's leading newspapers. There's no mention of Chick-fil-A on the front pages of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and the Boston Globe. The front pages of USA Today, theDallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle have small headlines about the restaurant, while Chick-fil-A's hometown paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, fits in a story below the fold under the heading, "Chick-fil-A Controversy." And the front pages of major news websites are quiet in their coverage as well.
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That's POWER.
http://nashua.patch.com/articles/nashua-chick-fil-a-to-sponsor-nh-pride-fest
Chick Fil-A is sponsoring a Gay Pride Parade! (in a state where gay marriage is allowed)
Someone call Dan Cathy quick!!!
Also I gotta love the picture of this story. Getting a kid to hold up a sign supporting chick fil-a and traditional marriage!! So sad to see children getting thrown about in this debate. I thought NOM was all about protecting kids. Guess it only matters when they are on their side.
So much for companies staying "neutral"
@Nate -
Yes, "sponsoring" the parade by erecting a booth where he we sell Chick-Fil-A. It's a business, and they won't turn anyone away who is willing to buy their product.
Kids are a big part of the issue in the so-called ss "marriage" farce. It's good that they learn early about the importance of male-female relationships to society and learning this early will protect them from considering homosexual relationships.
Your children share these feelings because you've indoctrinated them into your bigotry. The gay ones will make you pay for the damage you did to them as children....and they'll pick your nursing home.
A nationwide counter-demonstration, at 1600 locations.. lines out the doors and down the sidewalk all across the country.. traffic jams and zoos in parking lots, and the mainstream media deliberately diminishes its significance and muddies the water, leaving readers not realizing the significance of what happened.
The quiet, moral majority made its presence felt.
And this is all the homosexual reporters, that the mainstream media has recruited to report on homosexual issues, can come up with?
And the New York Times asks if this creates bias (William Glaberson's, “Gay Journalists Leading a Revolution“, The New York Times, September 10, 1993.)
Of course it does.
Homosexual journalists review articles for the purpose of bias adjustment?
What did they do on Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, decide that simply reporting it wasn't enough? It had to be couched within the context of:
* Both sides demonstrated?
* Provide quotes from both sides, in the interests of "balanced reporting" (unheard of when the shoe's on the other foot), with the deeper quotes coincidentally from SSM advocates?
* Pass it off as if the demonstrators went as much to support free speech as to counter the marriage redefinition movement's reaction to what Cathy said? (At its most basic level, all this started because of *what* Cathy said.)
* Put it in context: It was only one day. (Never mind that in one day we neutralized the boycotts of the other side.)
Homosexual journalists have made a mockery of the ideal of unbiased journalism, and the mainstream media is satisfied to allow it.
It must have really stuck in their craw that they had to include a picture of a long line outside a Chick-fil-A instead of a rainbow.
Seriously??? The "mainstream media" have given this story EXTENSIVE--I would say inescapable--coverage but you're put out because they're not all putting it on the front page? Give me a break.
I am certainly hoping that the States that are going to vote on Marriage Amendments in Nov. are paying close attention to this mess and realize what gay activists really are like. I hope they take lots of photos of gays kissing and put it in their true marriage commercials. This "kiss-in" will bite them in the butt.
It is even better to watch the hilarious pro-homosexual bias of the media displayed in such an obvious and intelligence-insulting way.
People know when they are being cynically conned.
I am glad the media is showing its bias here.
It will come in handy in November, when the Might Propaganda Wurlitzer has all its stops pulled out for Obama.
@John B
This blackout doesn't shock me. This is the same liberal media that black outs the annual March for Life because it proves the pro-life movement has youth and energy while the pro-abortion side doesn't.
Similary, the Appreciation Day wasn't covered because it REALLY proves that Americans still support the First Amendment and real marriage. One CBS News even admits their bias in this video clip:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV?id={AF1E82B3-4950-46D1-8DC3-B06B9FD0D14A}&title=CBS-Atlanta-Were-Not-Covering-Appreciation-Just-Protests
So, there is a double standard at work.
There simply is no "blackout" on this story. Any such claim is a figment of the right's imagination. If anything, the extensive coverage has been favorable for your side, as virtually all the reporting is framing the boycott and protests as a condemnation of Mr. Cathy's statements and opinions, rather than what they really are: a protest of the millions he and his company have given to virulently anti-gay groups that, among other things, are actively working to prevent and even take away people's marriages (including my own).
I'll say this: the media is consistent in its avoidance of huge stories. Remember the huge Tea Parties? My family knew very little about them & what they did know came from ABC, NBC, & CBS, which demonized them.
Real journalism is dead in the "main stream" media. They exist solely to promote an agenda today. It's shameful and deceptive, tragically.
Ironically, both John B #10 and Nancy In Ohio #11 are correct.
John, because in fact the media has covered the story (although coverage of the miserably fizzled "Kiss In" at least equals, and probably exceeds, the coverage of the absolutely amazing, 10 million plus turnout for CFA Appreciation Day).
Nancy is right all the way. The hysterical media bias against conservatives, against Tea Party advocates, and *most especially off all* against anything remotely Catholic, is a disgrace and a warning of the rapidly rising fascism exemplifies in the horrific gay "marriage" movement.
John B I wish to understand whether you are simply an echo chamber for fascism and destruction of First Amendment rights, or whether you are instead simply a guy who has bought the gay marriage arguments.
Impropose to do this by asking one simple question.
What is your respond to the multiple statement of elected officials that they would act to deny CFA a permit to do business in their cities?
The media can impose a black out on the Tea Party success and the long lines at Chick Fil A but unless they have a plan to stop people from voting, the truth will come out in November. People are FED UP w/ b. hussein and his failed liberal/progressive policies.
If "the won" loses in November, I safely predict the MSM will blanket the news with stories of voter fraud.