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 Offline oskar576
 Post subject: News Black-Out in DC
PostPosted: 12/19/10 10:54 am • # 1 
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Is this true?

Pay No Attention to Those Veterans Chained to the White House Fence



There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, and their civilian supporters, chained and tied themselves to the White House fence during an early snowstorm to say enough is enough.

Washington Police arrested 135 of the protesters, in what is being called the largest mass detention in recent years. Among those arrested were Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who used to provide the president's daily briefings, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the government's Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration, and Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York Times.

No major US news media reported on the demonstration or the arrests. It was blacked out of the New York Times, blacked out of the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked out in the Los Angeles Times, blacked out of the Wall Street Journal, and even blacked out of the capital's local daily, the Washington Post, which apparently didn't even think it was a local story worth publishing.

Making the media cover-up of the protest all the more outrageous was the fact that most news media did report on Friday, the day after the protest, the results of the latest poll of American attitudes towards the Afghanistan War, an ABC/Washington Post Poll which found that 60% of Americans now feel that war has “not been worth it.â€
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 Offline sooz06
 Post subject: News Black-Out in DC
PostPosted: 12/19/10 1:28 pm • # 2 
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I know my local NBC news had segments on this protest on both Thursday and Friday nights ~ a quick Google search turned up several blogs and 'alternative media outlets' covering the protest ~ but the only 'major' that came up in the search was USAToday, and that was an item in USAToday's 'The Oval' blog [see the blog item at WH Protest] ~ so I'm not sure 'blacked out' is the right terminology ~ but it definitely does not speak well for major media ~

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 Offline oskar576
 Post subject: News Black-Out in DC
PostPosted: 12/19/10 1:35 pm • # 3 
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The majors all seem to follow the same pattern.
Ignore this item, hype that item...
It certailnly doesn't seem random, does it?
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