By David Galland in Casey's Daily Dispatch:

Over the weekend, [Washington D.C. correspondent] Don Grove and I exchanged a number of emails as he prepared to participate in the gathering held in Washington on September 12 to protest against a further expansion of the government in the economy.

Until Don brought it to my attention, I had heard nothing about these protests, and on the day of the protests checked the usual news sources and found almost nothing on the topic. In fact, Fox was the only network to give it any real coverage. Doug Casey, who reads as much or more than I do, wrote back that he had likewise heard nothing about the event.

Many accuse the media of being the lap dogs of the state. I like to think otherwise, because once that is true, the slippery slope becomes particularly well greased. Yet how is it that the convergence of hundreds of thousands of protesters on Washington is a less important story than, say, the sorry fate of a single murder victim in Connecticut? Or an outburst on a tennis court – both of which claimed the banner headlines over the weekend and continuing into [Monday].

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