500,000 People Vanish in DC - Liberal Media

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Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:56:44 EDT

500,000 People Vanish in DC - " Liberal " Media

 

 

Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:48 PM

 

Ron Scott

 

500,000 People Vanish in Washington, DC

 

Imagine 500,000 people marching down the meandering thoroughfares of

Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street and Constitution Avenue in

Washington, DC. They are headed for a date with destiny and the

promise of peace, conjoined with a challenge for justice. How could

they vanish from the headlines?

 

Rod Serling, the brilliant creator/writer of “The Twilight Zone,â€

might have written this intro to one of his teleplays during the

1960s. But it didn’t happen then. It happened this weekend, with our

media, in our country, in our time.

 

“They came from as far away as Alaska and California,†reported

Abayomi Azikiwe of the Pan African Newswire, “from Europe to the

nation's capital itself, to make a clear statement that United States

military forces should withdraw immediately from Iraq. Honest crowd

estimates of the demonstration ranged from 500,000-600,000 (some even

thought there were more) making it the largest demonstration in the

capital since the winter of 2003.â€

 

Journalist Azikiwe rode the bus with 200 Detroiters who attended this

national anti-war march in Washington, DC and stood on the Mall with

thousands who watched speakers ranging from the Rev. Jesse Jackson to

Cindy Sheehan to activist Curtis Muhammad from New Orleans. He

provided a full report on this historic event.

 

But the corporate media was nowhere to be found. The demonstration was

lost on CNN. It was buried on MSNBC. It barely escaped a muffle on

NBC’s “Meet the Press†and the old, reliable NPR (National

Public Radio). If you had been watching C-SPAN, you would have seen

the speakers (but not the march), but how many people watches C-SPAN?

 

The media failed to cover the largest antiwar demonstration in America

since the Vietnam era. That’s not happening in “The Twilight

Zone.†That is reality today.

 

Where were they? Covering local news at home? In Iraq? Or covering the

Ashton Kucher/Demi Moore wedding?

 

No. They had a date with Rita. Celeb anchorpersons, clad in Tommy

Hilfiger and St. John knits, were standing in knee-deep water as a

backdrop. How many stories about Rita did we need? It’s a tragedy,

of course, but in Washington, a challenge to the Bush administration

was in full gear, and the cameras, recorders, and reporters’

notepads were missing. If it wasn’t real, it would be science fiction.

 

The failure of the media to cover this, perhaps one of the most

important events of this young century, challenges those who read this

blog and those who consider themselves to be committed Americans on

the left, right, and in between, to fight for full disclosure and

total coverage of what’s happening in our communities throughout the

nation. We’ve seen too many “in-bed-with†media, too many

laughing anchorpersons, and too many roving reporters who scream only

after the story is over.

 

The Bush administration needs to be covered, and covered seriously. To

any of you who remember history prior to 1980, lesser failures on the

part of a President brought his resignation. That was Richard M.

Nixon. Today, the chief executive of this country, and an

administration which has clearly attempted to silence the media, needs

to be accessed, researched, and critiqued†" even when the winds are

blowing in Texas.

 

http://info.detnews.com/weblog/index.cfm?blogid=5304

 

 

 

" People join the military to defend their country, not lies. "

Adam Reuter, 22-year-old Georgia resident

who was given a medical discharge from the Army four months ago.

Washington DC Protest, September 24, 2005

[Guest guest]

Media did not " ...'fail' to cover the largest anti-war demonstration in

America... " The use of the word " fail " implies that an effort was made to

achieve a specific goal, but that the effort was unsuccessful. The opposite

happened here; and in nearly all media matters connected with revelations of

Bush administration wrongdoing, where deceit and coverup is practical and

possible. Media didn't fail at what they were doing, they succeeded perfectly

at what they were doing. An effort " was " made, but not an effort to report on

the huge anti-war demonstration in Washington, but rather a conscious and

directed effort was made to conceal and squelch that anti-war demonstration.

 

Nearly anyone in the country can be persuaded that media " do nothing " to

properly report such anti-war demonstrations. But only a fragment of the

population is willing to accept that media are " working " to prevent news of

these demonstrations from reaching the public eye and mind. This is why media

are at the heart of those obstacles, freedom and democracy-loving people face in

this country. This is why the anti-war march should have been an anti-media

march. A moment's thought will reveal that this is so. But, the reality is, no

such march will occur. Chess players understand the problem. You can be denied

access to your victory, by a pawn; a pawn strategically and cleverly placed in

the way of your goals. You're defeated, because you can't see how pawns can be

your biggest obstacles. Media are just such cleverly positioned pawns.

 

JP

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califpacific

 

Ron Scott

500,000 People Vanish in Washington, DC

 

How could they vanish from the headlines?

 

It happened this weekend, with our media, in our country, in our time.

 

Honest crowd estimates of the demonstration ranged from 500,000-600,000

But the corporate media was nowhere to be found.

 

If you had been watching C-SPAN, you's have seen the speakers (but not the

march), but how many people watch C-SPAN?

 

The media failed (?) to cover the largest antiwar demonstration in America

since the Vietnam era.

 

That's not happening in The Twilight Zone. That is reality today.

 

Where were they? The failure (?) of the media to cover this, perhaps one of

the most important events of this young century, challenges those who read this

blog and those who consider themselves to be committed Americans on the left,

right, and in between, to fight for full disclosure and total coverage of what's

happening in our communities throughout the nation.