I don't see any conspiracy to "blackout" the story. It was covered. It just had the misfortune of occurring at a time when much of the country was looking elsewhere. If any of the national networks had led its Saturday afternoon newscast with coverage of the march instead of the hurricane, 95% of the people watching that network would have immediately grabbed the remote control and switched to a competing network.

I'm no fan of the media. I think they only exist to sell soap, not to inform the public. If you see a bias in their decision to give the hurricane top billing over the peace march, it's not because a political agenda, it's because hurricanes sell more soap than peace marchers.