Local TV anti-equality bias

WNBC-TV's coverage of Sunday's competing marriage equality rallies was biased due to inexcusable (read: "deliberate"?) factual inaccuracy.

In their piece (available on their website), they correctly state that the anti-equality rally had "[t]housands of protesters." But they only credited "several hundred people" for showing up at the pro-equality rally.

There were thousands. I know; I was there.

In addition, their broadcast coverage of Mayor Bloomberg made it unclear which side he was on, although the webpage makes it clear.

Finally, their webpage showing pictures from the rally and attendant events has an error -- slide 10 lists Tom Duane as Daniel O'Donnell.

It's bad enough that we have to deal with inbred prejudice among too many of our state senators; we shouldn't have to deal with the same bias on broadcast television.

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