I'm sure you were glued to your television over the weekend or spending time reading stories in your newspaper about the demonstrations in DC that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and multiple arrests.

What?  You didn't know about the big protests here?

This weekend, hundreds of protestors gathered to mark the meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

What were they mad about?  They weren't happy with the recent decision of the G-20 Summit to spend up to a trillion dollars for an IMF economic rescue fund.

Other than coverage by the local Washington, D.C. papers, there wasn't much mention of the damage and violence in newspapers around the country.

Yes, when you search for IMF protests on the web, you got lots of results, but they weren't about D.C.

The reason I bring this up is to again illuminate the issue of what the media covers and what it does not.

Protests by more liberal groups against the IMF and the Iraq War did not draw massive coverage in recent years.  In fact, it was often relegated to the Metro section of the Washington Post, and left out of the front section entirely.

As I always like to say, if the liberal media is so liberal, wouldn't they be all over these protests all of the time, pumping them up?

While the media was missing this story for the most part, it wasn't being ignored by media critics like Newsbusters.org.

"Radicals Smash Bank Windows, But The WaPo Can't Connect It to the Left," read the headline of shame that whacked the Post for not identifying these people as crazed liberals.

(What's odd is that the article in the Post does refer to groups of "anarchists," but evidently that word wasn't bad enough to describe the demonstrators.)

One thing I'm always fascinated by is the sheer number of people who think that reporters have an "agenda" when they do their job.

I will now let you in on a secret about my "agenda."

My agenda every day is pretty simple.

Do my work as fast as possible and go home to play with the kids, who are screaming at me right now as I type this.

Maybe they should have taken a nap.

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