Here's a more complete roundup of today's media coverage of Monday's "Save Our Homes Rally" in Harrisburg.
The most comprehensive coverage is in today's edition of The Mercury, which ran a lead story entitled, "Taxpayers rally: Save Our Homes" and a sidebar, "Lawmakers optimistic about revised tax plan"
The same story by reporter Michael Hays was picked up by the Daily Local News in West Chester under the headline, "Tough talk on Taxes" (There were quite a few Chester County lawmakers who were no-shows at the rally, even though several busloads of Chester County residents attended.) Another Chester County newspaper, The Phoenix, also ran both stories that originated in The Mercury.)
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review focused on state Rep. Sam Rohrer's long struggle to eliminate property taxes in a story headlined, "Lawmaker tries again to eliminate property tax"
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also ran a story, "Seniors rally against property taxes"
Even though David Baldinger, one of the organizers of the rally hails from Berks County (as does Rep. Sam Rohrer), the Reading Eagle ignored the rally.
The state's biggest newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, also ignored the story, as did The Morning-Call in Allentown.
The Associated Press moved a five-paragraph brief on the rally, which is all The Harrisburg Patriot-News ran even though the event was in the paper's backyard and was probably the biggest political story of the day.
The Pennsylvania Cable Network taped the rally and showed it several times on cable systems across Pennsylvania.
WFMZ Channel 69, which covers the Lehigh Valley and Berks County, ran a report on its evening newscasts and also posted it on its Web site.
No coverage in the Philly TV stations, who are busy covering a story about a TV anchor who read the private e-mails of his fired co-anchor.
In the blogosphere, the event was mentioned at GrassrootsPA, PowerBlog!, Lincoln Blog, THE CENTRIST and TONY PHYRILLAS
There's also a bunch of photos posted at TONY PHYRILLAS
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