Why Didn’t Bilderberg Get More Coverage?

An overhead view of the Westfields Marriott Hotel in Chantilly, VA, where the Bilderberg Group met this weekend.
Photos courtesy of cryptome.org.
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I generally take articles published at Prison Planet with a grain of salt, but they do make a point in their piece titled Castrated U.S. Media Remains Obediently Silent On Bilderberg.

If about 150 celebrities gathered in a secluded location for a weekend event with an exclusive guest list and Illuminati-grade security (say, some pop diva’s wedding or birthday party), how much time would the mainstream media devote to it? At least the weekend’s news cycle, plus some follow-up the week after.

However, when an equally-sized group of influential businesspeople and politicians have a similar meeting — The Bilderberg Group — it goes almost unreported. Odd, considering that what goes on at the Bilderberg Group is more likely to affect you than what happens at any celebrity wedding or birthday party.

(Here’s a Google News search on the term “Bilderberg”. It’s all small news sites, wackos like Canada Free Press and the political blog Wonkette.)

If you want to find out more about this year’s Bilderberg Group gathering, cryptome.org — the site devoted to finding out secrets — has some good stuff, including photos taken at the site (all exterior shots, of course). My favourite shots are of the rent-a-cops watching the place, whose expression probably conveys the way the people inside feel about the people outside:

Photos courtesy of cryptome.org.
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Also worth checking out is this round-up of Bilderberg happenings, which links to many things, including a report about a “secret” Obama-Clinton meeting and the fact that the guy in charge of picking Obama’s running mate is attending [wingnut alert: it’s a WorldNetDaily piece — have a grain of salt handy. Canada Free Press also covers it].