Posted on 01/21/2003 5:39:13 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
Peace march whitewash. Though Saturdays anti-war with Iraq peace march in Washington, DC was organized by a far-left group, had a bunch of zany leftist outfits as sponsors, featured some far out rhetoric from the stage which belied the notion that the organizers simply want a peaceful solution, and ended with a march to the Washington Navy Yard to demand access to U.S. weapons of mass destruction, as if the U.S. and Iraqi possession of them is equivalent, major media outlets, both print and broadcast, ignored such realities which might have reduced empathy for the cause.
(This item looks at the networks. See item #3 below for newspaper coverage.)
Instead, the networks painted participants as sympathetically as possible, trying to make them identifiable to viewers as people next door, stressing how they were made up of grandparents, honor students, teachers, businessmen, military veterans, soccer moms and Republicans. Plus, CNN really turned on the syrup by focusing on an elderly a Nazi survivor who caught a ride with a busload of young people, all to stop another war, to stop more suffering.
Hardly a word from the stage got aired as the networks preferred to focus on the most normal looking people in the crowd. On stage, Ramsey Clark demanded Bush be impeached and one speaker even described convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal as a political prisoner.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaresearch.org ...
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/endorsers.html
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