[imc-wmass-discuss] March on the Corporate Media - Wednesday, NYC

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Folks,

The lies and distortions of events in NYC are already in progress. As an 
example, witness this AP report of the incident in yesterday's Poor Peoples 
March from the UN: 
<http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/108682/index.php>
and compare it to this articulate report from an Indymedia reporter at the 
same event:
<http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/108710/index.php>

And that's the AP, not the worst of corporado media offenders. Tomorrow 
there will be an event in NYC that promises to address the issue of 
information control and citizen indoctrination. I reccomend it highly. 
PLEASE PASS IT ON.


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MARCH ON THE CORPORATE MEDIA

For the past few years, the mainstream media have marched in lockstep with 
the Bush administration. Now it's time to march on the media.

Whether the issue is corporate abuse, the 2000 Florida recount, the Patriot 
Act or post- 9/11 detentions, the mainstream media have behaved more like 
lapdogs than watchdogs. When the Bush administration pursued a plan to 
attack Iraq, the media amplified the charges of the Bush partisans and 
ignored or downplayed dissenting views.

And it's important to remember that the media giants aren't yet happy with 
their domination of the public sphere. They have serious business before the 
government-- the business of getting even bigger. When the Federal 
Communications Commission sought to "relax" the limits on media ownership in 
2003, big media companies were thrilled. Despite overwhelming public 
sentiment against the plan, the FCC went ahead with part of its plans. 
Thanks to hard work, media activists have successfully blocked these 
changes. We know where the media stand when it comes to their own self 
interest. But what can they say they've done in the public interest?



The network newscasts are still the most popular source of news for 
Americans. But what kind of news are we getting? A study of all the sources 
appearing on the newscasts in 2001 by the group Media Tenor found that the 
networks tilted heavily in favor of white, male Republican sources. Women 
and people of color were scarce; women made up between 14 and 18 percent of 
those appearing on the newscasts, while Arab-Americans and Latinos each were 
less than one percent of the sources on the network newscasts.

The media giants are granted licenses to broadcast on the public airwaves; 
in return, the public has the right to hold these companies accountable for 
their collective failure to present a wide range of viewpoint and 
perspectives.


Your media is broken and can't be fixed

MORE INFO HERE:


>Updated information, route changes, speakers, etc. at:
>http://marchonthemedia.org/
>
>Sign on to support this action:
>http://marchonthemedia.org/links.html


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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as 
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."

                              - Thomas Jefferson
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more rebellion here:
http://concertobi.blogspot.com/

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