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[catscradle]

Yesterday was pretty eventful. I attended the protest rally in Denver. There were about 4000 people there, which is super good. It was dishartening to find out later on the news that they only showed a small sound bite of the rally and never mentioned how many showed up. They were sure to tell us that while the rally was loud, no violence broke out. Thanks.

It was even more dishartening to see the national news. CNN will only say tens of thousands of people marched in DC. Try 150,000! They mentioned the smaller marches in Germany, Rome and Tokyo. At CNN, the header is also under European news. http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/27/iraq.protests.ap/index.html. I can see it as world news, but the sub-header is Europe. The AP article comes from Germany. I supose actually sending a corespondant to DC, where they were actually marching on the White House - the focal point of the whole demonstrastion, was just too much to ask.

For more accurate info go to: The Independent Media

I guess in the meantime we'll just have to watch more on the sniper they already caught. Nice little distraction.

Anyone still on the fence as to bias in the media?

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[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

Ohyeah, the media bias has been around since Viet Nam days. My family (I come from a line of rabble rousers ;D ) used to get their news from CBC or BBC World Service. You can't trust the Beeb anymore, tho. We've a very good International New Service on DTV.

But yeah, you really have to bypass all the 'big guns' to really find out what's going on in the world.

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

on the plane tonight there was a copy of today's tulsa whatever and going through it, near the end of the first section was buried this blah little story on protests going on nationally. it was so weak and pathetic. i saw it and even in my totaly exhausted, mentally "whatever" state (see my most recent post), i was like "um, this should be on the first page... damnitttt!"

uggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh.