Has anyone seen ANYTHING on Mainstream TV Media about Peace March?

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:14 PM
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Has anyone seen ANYTHING on Mainstream TV Media about Peace March?

Edited on Sat Sep-24-05 07:15 PM by KoKo01

I'm meaning: Networks, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, CNN HEADLINE,FOX or even ESPN.

I finally gave up and went online to read the wire services and AP did have what I thought was an excellent report on the Peace March. It really papered over the A.N.S.W.E.R. and United for Peace side issues that many DU'er find fault with and did a good job of making it "diverse
issues."

But...I never saw a peep between RITA, RITA, RITA...which was a big suck up coverage to Bush and Texas and the National Guard, Military and all the big ships sitting off the coast who are so well-equipped and "ready to move in." Where were they in NO's, I wondered, the Iwo Jima and the supposed other ships housing medical facilities and the "rescue workers."

Anyway...wondered if ANY MAIN STREAMS reported, since I gave up and turned it off about 6:30 edt...

Here's a link to the AP article...don't get hung up on the numbers they report but read the whole article if you are REALLY interested to see a fair report. At least I thought it was very fair and I watched the protest on C-Span and tried to read the blogs from Pitt. I was a viewer and not a participant but as such if I'd not watched it...I would have felt informed by the AP article in a favorable way.

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ANTI-WAR PROTESTORS MARCH IN WASHINGTON

By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago

Opponents of the war in Iraq marched Saturday in a clamorous day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead, some showing surprisingly diverse political views even as they spoke with one loud voice in wanting U.S. troops home.

The surging crowd, shouting "Bush out now" and "Peace now," marched in front of the White House and then to the Washington Monument in an 11-hour marathon of dissent.

They were young people with green hair, nuns whose anti-war activism dates to Vietnam, parents mourning their children in uniform lost in Iraq, and uncountable families motivated for the first time to protest.

President Bush himself was out of town, monitoring hurricane recovery efforts from Colorado and Texas. The protesters shouted for his impeachment.

"We have to get involved," said Erika McCroskey, 27, who came from Des Moines, Iowa, with her younger sister and mother for her first demonstration, traveling in just one of the buses that poured into the capital from far-flung places.

"Bush Lied, Thousands Died," said one sign. "End the Occupation," said another.

Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, noting that organizers had hoped to draw 100,000 people, said, "I think they probably hit that."

A few hundred people in a counterdemonstration in support of Bush's Iraq policy lined the protest route near the FBI building. The two groups shouted at each other, a police line keeping them apart.

(NOTE: this is only a "snip" of a long article and a good read.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050924/ap_on_re_us/war_protest;_ylt=ApJg0ZcC.P6M6HhZCrqA7wus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-