On Thursday, I reported the sudden and bizarre absence of VRA stories in major media websites little more than a day and a half after the story broke: Media Burying Voting Rights KKKourt Ruling with DOMA Bait-and-Switch; Change.org Petition Updates. Some folks thought it was just a normal product of new stories of equal significance coming to the fore, such as the DOMA ruling, and suggested I wait until Sunday to judge how much coverage it was getting. Well, surprise surprise, the media websites I examined on Thursday are still burying the hell out of it while endlessly expounding on other stories of equal or lesser significance.
Numbers reflect total number of links to the stated content, including redundant links under multiple categories, with items listed in descending order of number:
CBS News:
Gay marriage: 10
NSA/Snowden: 5
Zimmerman trial: 2
TX abortion battle/ Wendy Davis: 2
VRA: 1
NBC News:
Immigration: 7
Gay marriage: 7
NSA/Snowden: 7
VRA: 1
New York Times:
Gay marriage: 8
NSA/Snowden: 4
VRA: 2
Washington Post:
NSA/Snowden: 11
Gay marriage: 6
Immigration: 5
VRA: 2
CNN:
NSA/Snowden: 5
Gay marriage: 3
Hernandez: 3
Zimmerman: 3
VRA: 0
Los Angeles Times:
Gay marriage: 9
NSA/Snowden: 1 (Top headline)
VRA: 1 (A cartoon)
Yeah, they're really reporting the shit out of VRA this Sunday, eh?