How, then, do you handle such a conference as the one that marched into Salt Lake City this past weekend -- if you are the media? Do you ignore it, declining to dignify it with your coverage?
Second question: What happened, that only a reported 1,000 attended, whereas organizers expected 10,000 at their WeCANAct Liberty Conference? I mean, this is Utah, home to some of the most faithful of America's right-wingers. How is it that a conference of such faithfuls would draw so few?
From what I am reading, the conference drew little attention from the local media -- even though it brought Michael Flynn to town, among other right-wing notables. I'm only finding one local media outlet that covered it -- the Salt Lake Tribune. Surely there were others, though. I must have put in the wrong search words in making my search of the Internet. I browse KSL and the Deseret News daily, though, and came across not a single story from them.
Hey, some of the national media were aware of the conference. They covered it. How is it there was so little local coverage? "Yuge Flop: Michael Flynn Headlines Sparsely Attended Pro-Trump, Anti-Vaxx Event," says a headline in Rolling Stone. "Right-Wing Pro-Trump Event Aiming for 10,000 Attendees Sees Less Than 1,000 on First Day," reads a headline in Newsweek.
Were some in the media not interested in giving a stage to a group that promotes what they believe is misinformation? My thought is, cover it. Michael Flynn is here. Frontline Doctor Simone Gold is here. How do you say that is not newsworthy?
I say this as a person who is a Never-Trumper. I say it as a person who believes that such things as the election being a fraud are frauds, themselves. A convention such as this does spread misinformation.
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