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== News coverage ==
== News coverage ==
=== Mainstream media ===
=== Mainstream media ===
[[File:MSM_by_TEA.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Attitude of Tea Party Movement participants toward four MSM outlets]]
[[File:MSM_by_tea.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Attitude of Tea Party Movement participants toward four MSM outlets]]
Coverage by the [[Mainstream Media]] of the Tea Party events has been noticeably lacking, both in quantity and in quality. The three traditional broadcast networks ([[ABC]], [[CBS]], [[NBC]]) have attempted repeatedly to discredit these events as corporate-sponsored or sponsored by the [[Republican Party]] and other conservative or reactionary groups.<ref name=baker>Baker B, "[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/04/16/abc-cbs-nbc-try-discredit-tea-party-protests ABC, CBS and NBC Try to Discredit 'Tea Party' Protests]," ''NewsBusters'', 16 April 2009. Accessed September 16, 2009. Baker does a side-by-side comparison of coverage of the Tax Day Tea Parties and of several pro-immigration rallies held on 1 May 2006.</ref> Furthermore, several news anchors working for [[CNN]] and [[MSNBC]] coined the phrase "tea-baggers," a term that has an off-color connotation, to refer to Tea Party Movement leaders and participants.
Coverage by the [[Mainstream Media]] of the Tea Party events has been noticeably lacking, both in quantity and in quality. The three traditional broadcast networks ([[ABC]], [[CBS]], [[NBC]]) have attempted repeatedly to discredit these events as corporate-sponsored or sponsored by the [[Republican Party]] and other conservative or reactionary groups.<ref name=baker>Baker B, "[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/04/16/abc-cbs-nbc-try-discredit-tea-party-protests ABC, CBS and NBC Try to Discredit 'Tea Party' Protests]," ''NewsBusters'', 16 April 2009. Accessed September 16, 2009. Baker does a side-by-side comparison of coverage of the Tax Day Tea Parties and of several pro-immigration rallies held on 1 May 2006.</ref> Furthermore, several news anchors working for [[CNN]] and [[MSNBC]] coined the phrase "tea-baggers," a term that has an off-color connotation, to refer to Tea Party Movement leaders and participants.