Media Blacks Out Iran Peace Delegation Representing 50+ Million in US

[babylonsister]

Boy, does this sound familiar!

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/48794/

Media Blacks Out Iran Peace Delegation Representing 50+ Million in US
Posted by Bruce Wilson on March 4, 2007 at 12:59 PM.

In their book The Record of The Paper : How The New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy, Howard Friel and Richard Falk amply document how New York Times mis-reporting helped pave the way for the US invasion of Iraq.

demonstrate how the newspaper of record in the United States has consistently, over the last 50 years, misreported the facts related to the wars waged by the United States. From Vietnam in the 1960s to Nicaragua in the 1980s and Iraq today, the authors accuse the New York Times of serial distortions. They claim that such coverage now threatens not only world legal order but constitutional democracy in the United States.

In late February 2007, delegates representing the National Council Of Churches, which has roughly 45 million members, and other religious groups traveled to Iran and met with top Iranian religious and political leaders, in hopes of increasing trust and reducing tensions that might lead to war between the US and Iran. On Monday February 26th the delegation gave a Washington press conference about the trip. Beyond a vitriolic New York Post parody of the delegation Not a single major US media venue has opted to cover the story.

Ironically, New York Times has just published a story about how the anti-war "Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus" has been blacked out by the media, but the Times is itself appears to be blacking out the story of a peace delegation to Iran representing upwards of perhaps 60 million Americans or more. (see interview with delegate member Jim Winkler)

Meanwhile, the NYT - which has so far declined to cover the peace efforts - opted to run a February 7th op-ed. that appears to treat favorably a new Christian "pro-Israel" lobbying group that advocates for a US nuclear attack on Iran and whose founder says publicly that he thinks the war he wants (for religious reasons) will set in motion a global conflict that he thinks could kill most Jews on Earth. Also, top GOP leaders meet often with Mr. Hagee. Are these GOP leaders just "pandering", eh ? Well, we sure better hope they are. Dick Armey says George W. Bush believes in the "End Times", "The Rapture", "The Apocalypse" and so on but says GW isn't trying to actually make those things happen. How lucky do we feel ?

[bonito]

1. Text of Statement by Religious Delegation to Iran

at this link http://www.faithfulamerica.org/article.php?id=158
Its clear that this administration does not represent religion in America.

[babylonsister]

2. Thanks! nt

[Tuesday_Morning]

5. K & R!

from the National Council of Churches website:

Iran president open to talks with U.S., religious leaders told

Washington, D.C., February 26, 2007 – The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told a delegation of American religious leaders visiting Tehran last Saturday that he is willing to engage in talks with the United States government.

snip

"What the delegation found most encouraging from the meeting with President Ahmadinejad," said the statement, "was a clear declaration from him of no intention to acquire or use nuclear weapons, as well as a statement that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be solved through political not military means."

snip

more at link

http://www.ncccusa.org/news/070226iranopen.html

[bananas]

3. k&r nt

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. Another K&R n/t

[Gryphons Eyre]

6. that damned liberal media strikes again

In reality the left has been wondering if there is a media anymore let alone a liberal one. Gee and so many congressmen brag they get all their news from Fox...anybody have any questions?

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[Uncle Joe]

7. Thanks for the thread babylonsister

Kicked and recommended

[Supersedeas]

8. the GOP/Media establishment has something to sell/ only what their Advertisers are willing to buy

[bluehighways911]

9. Shocked

I think we all should know, this is going to be standard operating procedure.

If you are looking from help from the media. Throw yourself down a hole.

And I don't have the answers. Until Alternet and DU are mainstream, learn to live with it.

And that means get organized.