Analyst's note: Troubling. If the mainstream media ignores a demonstration, did anyone attend? The mainstream media also totally ignored the Coptic Christian activist Joseph Nassralla who spoke and gave indicated an impassioned talk regarding "[....] his opposition to the mega-mosque, his love for America, and his grief at the persecution of Christians in Egypt [...]"
The photographs don’t lie: at the 9/11 Rally of Remembrance against the Ground Zero mega-mosque, tens of thousands of people filled the streets. Flags were everywhere, along with numerous homemade signs. Meanwhile, two blocks away, at the counter-protest in favor of the mega-mosque, photographs show that the demonstration was much smaller, and printed signs were in abundance – an unmistakable indication of an astroturfed, professional protest, orchestrated by Communist and Socialist groups (whose printed signs abounded). Yet the mainstream media consistently portrayed these two demonstrations as “dueling rallies,” and even claimed that the pro-mosque ralliers outnumbered those against the mosque. It was yet another indication of how the ostensibly objective press tries to manipulate public opinion. [....]"