Morocco Post \ Washington, DC
“Planners of the National Tea Party Convention, billed as a coming together for the conservative grassroots groups who sprang up in anti-stimulus protests last year, announced late Sunday that they would broadcast main parts of the convention, including the keynote by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday night” said the New York Times.
The announcement said that an internet media company, PJTV, along with Fox News, CNN and Reuters TV, would broadcast “many” of the proceedings of the convention this weekend in Nashville, as well as “special interviews of delegates and speakers.”
In an article posted by Kate Zernike the writer underlines complains made by the movement’s members describing as too expensive the ticket price ($549) to attend the convention.
A spokesman for the Tea Party Convention, said in a statement announcing the broadcast that the organization had long planned “this surprise” to allow more activists to participate.
Al Jazeera New channel announced the event and published a video report of its correspondent Cath Turner from Nashville, TN.
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