As thousands
of supporters around the world have joined demonstrations in
solidarity with Native land and water defenders blocking the planned
Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in
North Dakota, the largest Native mobilization in decades remains
absent from some of the biggest news media in the United States.
Jim
Naureckas, editor of the media watchdog site FAIR.org, released a
report on Thursday which noted that “to this day, ABC News and
NBC News have yet to broadcast a word about the pipeline struggle.”
Among the
“Big Three” television networks, CBS first broached the story on
Sept. 5, in “a lone report on CBS Morning News (9/5/16),
amounting to 48 words read at 4 o’clock in the morning,”
although Naureckas found the channel has since “returned to the
story repeatedly.”
While other
news channels, including MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and even Fox News, have
reported the standoff, none have mentioned Democracy Now! host Amy
Goodman’s threatened arrest for “criminal trespass” while
covering attacks on protesters by Dakota Access-contracted security
guards using dogs and pepper spray on Sept. 3.
In earlier
analysis, released on Sept. 15, Naureckas noted the media’s broad
lack of attention to the State of North Dakota’s “extraordinary
action” against a fellow journalist. “[M]ost national
corporate media outlets—the ones who complain about not getting a
seat on a candidate’s plane—breathed not a word on North Dakota’s
assault on the press’s ability to cover a major story of the
moment,” he wrote.
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