Decius wrote: The biggest problem that the "anti-war" movement has right now is the illusion that somehow the war they protested starting in 2003 is the same war that they're protesting today.
I agree with this sentiment. I am not convinced that we went into Iraq the right way. I've been on the fence about that from the start. I am convinced that leaving right now would be a terrible thing to do. There is an important job to do in Iraq today and we need to see it through. Furthermore, I'd bet there would be broad international support today if we requested it.
I received an interesting email in this same vein today from my Public Policy department. Check it out below...they have a protest scheduled at CNN at 7pm Friday night. I hope to one day be in a controversial enough position that I can protest my former employer without any overriding irony. -janelane, nfa w/ wmd ==================================
Media Activist and Film Director
Danny Schechter
In Atlanta Friday, September 30 Talk at Georgia Tech, 1PM (Clary Theater)
Demonstration at CNN, 4PM
Movie at GSU, 7 PM (Cinefest)
================================== Danny Schechter is the executive editor of MediaChannel.org,
the world's largest online media issues network. He has authored
numerous books, including "Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception:
How the Media Failed to Cover the Iraq War" (Prometheus Books, 2003
and "The More You Watch, The Less You Know" (Seven Stories Press). Schechter joined the start-up staff at CNN as a producer based in Atlanta.
He then moved to ABC as a producer for 20/20. He has served as
adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia
University. His writing has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines
including the The Nation, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review,
Village Voice, Tikkun, and Z. In 2001 Schechter received the Society of Professional Journalists' Award
for Excellence in Documentary Journalism. ===========================
PROGRAM for Friday, September 30
=========================== 1 PM
Public Talk: “Media and Homeland Insecurity”
At Georgia Tech’s Clary Theater (by Tech Tower)
See: www.IP3.gatech.edu 4 PM
Protest at CNN 7 PM
"Movie Showing: Weapons of Mass Deception"
Winner of the 2005 International Film Festival in Durban, South Africa
At Georgia State University’s “Cinéfest”
2nd Floor of the University Center; suite 240
66 Courtland Street
For more information on WMD (including a trailer), visit
www.wmdthefilm.com ===========================================
PRESS RELEASE by the Southern Media Justice Coalition
=========================================== HAS CNN SOLD OUT OR SOLD IN? A FORMER CNN PRODUCER ASKS: "CAN WE TRUST
'THE WORLD"S MOST TRUSTED NETWORK?'" A CALL TO CNN JOURNALISTS TO STAND UP FOR TRUTH AND EXPOSE THE WAR FOR WHAT
IT IS ATLANTA…..Former CNN Producer Danny Schechter (start-up team, l980) appeals
to CNN journalists to stop the spin. In his new award-winning film, WMD
(Weapons of Mass Deception)-- to be shown Friday September 30 AT 7PM at the
Georgia State University’s Cinefest (66 Courtland St.) - Schechter argues
that our TV media--INCLUDING CNN -- is guilty of colluding with the
government and doing more selling than telling. "CNN fielded two separate teams in its coverage of the Iraq War--one for
the rest of the world, and one for us. Their coverage was
skewed....Christianne Amanpour says the coverage was "muzzled."..."This was
disinformation at the highest levels." CNN News Executive Eason Jordan disclosed that the CNN "cleared" its
military analysts with the Pentagon...He admitted failing to disclose
abuses of CNN employees to keep the Baghdad Bureau open...He was forced
out after suggesting that journalists may have been "targeted" by the US
military in Baghdad." Schechter asks today: "Is CNN just a tool of TimeWarner, a mega-corporation
led by a Republican ($250,000 donation to the Bush Inauguration party in
2005) ? Has its lost its journalistic mission?
Ted Turner thinks so. So do many viewers who resent the dumbing down of
news and the fusion of news biz and show biz. Why is CNN often trying to
‘OUTFOX FOX’ rather than stand for truth?” CNN Journalists and interns are invited to come to the screening of WMD --
to be shown Friday September 30 AT 7PM at the Georgia State University’s
Cinefest (66 Courtland St.) -- and discuss CNN's role in cheerleading for war For more information on WMD, visit www.wmdthefilm.com
Read Danny Schechter's new book: WHEN NEWS LIES (Select Books) =========
SPONSORS
========= Southern Media Justice Coalition
WRFG / Radio Free Georgia
Atlanta Indymedia
Internet and Public Policy Project (afternoon talk)
Students for Peace and Justice of GSU
Georgia for Democracy More information: 404 523 3471
www.WRFG.org
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