There was a massive workers rally on Saturday, March 12th, in Madison, Wisconsin in response to the governor’s signing of a bill that takes away public workers’ rights to collective bargaining. Unfortunately, most media coverage ignored this important story until the following morning. Even then, not a lot of media coverage occurred due to the constant obsession with one or two topics that our corporate media continues to display — in this case, the tsunami in Japan. Sure, that is a massive news story, but it should not drown out all other news. The fear is that it will over take all other important news all week long and Americans will be even less informed than usual. More coverage should be granted to other news, such as the recent inhumane budget cuts at all levels, and the losing of the legal and civil rights of public workers in Wisconsin. As a result of the ‘government takeover’ of workers rights in Wisconsin, Saturday’s rally crowd in Madison was estimated to be about 100,000 or even more. The Wisconsin 14 state senators also returned to Wisconsin on Saturday and received a “hero’s welcome”. Here’s a video of the size of the crowd, [...]