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I've always felt that the media and especially TV are crucial to all of this. Certainly the genocidal sanctions would not have been possible if there had been half decent reporting. On 6 May 2003 at 21:00, bob.steel1@juno.com wrote: > >the year, the words "depleted uranium" have not been >uttered once on > ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News >or NBC Nightly News, > according to Nexis. > > It occurs to me that while large masses of people have taken to the > streets to protest the war, and against Bush, I haven't heard of any > marching on the entity which perhaps bears the most responsibility: > the mainstream news media. If they had performed responsible > journalism the American public might have been well enough informed > that the political pressure would have prevented the war -- and now > the evil deeds of the US in the postwar period. > > Moreover, the media does have to be concerned with public opinion: > teir ratings are at stake, and thus the revenue from the advertisers. > This might be an effective pressure point for change, if enough people > are still willing to take to the streets and protest for a fair news > media. > > I'm going to forward this post to the peace actions groups I have > contact with. Maybe some of you can do the same? Mark Parkinson Bodmin Cornwall _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk