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26.03.03, 08:08
The role of the mainstream media as mouthpieces of the White House and
Pentagon has become even more blatant since the start of the attack on Iraq.
Protests receive scant coverage as many corporate news websites and
newspapers shift their focus to coverage of the invasion itself, which the
military restricts or manipulates. Despite all this, protests continue to
rage across the country in San Fransisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and
Washington, DC.
Reports indicate that the corporate media has been skewing protest size
estimates, inflating pro-war protests while underestimating the size of
antiwar protests. But the media has been not just been misreporting news, but
actively creating it in many cases: ClearChannel Communications, which owns
over 1200 radio stations in the US, has sponsored pro-war rallies in Atlanta,
Cleveland, San Antonio, Cincinnati and other cities.
[Indymedia International]