How The Cablers Covered the Tea Parties

Hard to imagine. Via Media Bistro.

We've been monitoring how the networks are covering the tea parties today (via TV Eyes). As of 6pmET, here's how many times the tea parties have been mentioned by each network:

• FBN — 78
• FNC — 55
• CNN — 36
• MSNBC — 32
• HLN — 24
• CNBC — 17

During his report on The Situation Room, CNN media critic Howard Kurtz characterized the coverage this way: "Fox News sees today's tea party tax day protests as a big story, CNN as a modest story and MSNBC as a great story...to make fun of."