July 26, 2005

Like I said, it's been quiet. So you'd think the media would have space to devote to 320 events around the USA marking the third anniversary of the Downing Street Minutes. This SFGate coverage, for example, ridiculed the protesters as small-L liberals and "Bush bashers"...
Such a harmonic convergence of activism could almost be dubbed "liberal bliss" day -- if everyone weren't so fighting mad.
Strap yourselves in, folks. It's gonna be a long drive...

Read more reports from around the United States and Europe here.
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2 comments:

Unknown said...

Like the blog, keep fighting the good fight!
The corporate owned media has no use for stories like the Downing St. memo, as it makes them look like idiots (again) for drumming up the war and towing the company line up until the invasion. Thus, a story like this is barely a blip on their radar.

10:05 am
Jaraparilla said...

Do you think that the mainstream media is still ticked that they missed the importance of DSM entirely?

You know, most journos are so full of themselves that they wouldn't know they've missed something big until somebody else gets the Pulitzer for reporting it. And there is a whole chain-of-command within the press and TV, just like any corporate environment. Journos get sent out to cover flower shows while the real news comes in over the wires (Reuters, Knight-Ridder, Agence France...) but it's the editors who decide what goes in and what gets "spiked". And the EIC answers to the Board, of course, and the shareholders...

As I said earlier, I think the reason Bush is coming under pressure now is that he has started jailing reporters, so there is some pressure coming up from within the ranks. Even EIC's value their freedom!

3:52 pm

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