Bill Moyers Essay: Takin' It to the Streets, Again
It's important who owns the press, as we've just seen and heard...but it's also important who decides what is news.More here.
Why wasn't it news last weekend when more than 100,000 people turned out in 11 cities across the country to protest the occupation of Iraq...Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Orlando, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Jonesborough, Tennessee. but if you blinked while watching the national news, you wouldn't have known it was a story. We found less than two minutes of scattered mentions on television, and not even the Associated Press reported on other demonstrations in smaller cities.
Note: A very, very powerful commentary by Bill Moyers. I urge each and every one of you to take five minutes out of your busy life and watch & listen to this. - ferg
posted by Fergie @ 11/05/2007 08:52:00 PM
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