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Thread #56882   Message #892223
Posted By: GUEST
17-Feb-03 - 01:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: politics: Very disappointed in CNN today
Subject: RE: BS: politics: Very disappointed in CNN today
Perception is everything, though, isn't it.

I agree that all the mainstream media covered the global demonstrations. However, the coverage was most certainly not impartial, objective, or informative.

For instance, how many people who have watched a lot of the coverage on television, saw a single interview with an organizer or media spokesperson for any of the organizations who sponsored the weekend's events? Why is it that not one single news program has invited any representatives of the major three organizations in the US onto a news program to participate in the debate over policy? Why are media spokespeople for Not in Our Name or United for Peace or International ANSWER or the UK's Stop the War Coalition, being asked to appear on the Sunday morning policy discussion programs?

That is what we should be demanding to know. Why are these organizations, who represent the opinions and positions of millions of people worldwide, being locked out of the policy debates by the mainstream media?