Protest CNN's War Coverage Noon Wed.

Protest CNN's War Coverage

Wednesday 3/26, Noon

50 California Street (b/w Embarcadero & Davis)
Downtown San Francisco

Bring signs with pictures of Iraqi and American
victims of war, and your best signs about the
media's coverage.

This weekend the United States dropped more than
1500 bombs and missiles on Baghdad, a city the
size of Los Angeles. In Basra, a city of more
than 1 million, the U.S. military actions left
the population without water and electricity.

The reality of war is not antiseptic - it is
bloody and has devastating consequences on
human beings and the environment.

But what are the images we're seeing on CNN?

We are seeing a video war with select commentary
from former military generals or from Pentagon-
approved journalists "embedded" within the US
military. We are seeing the version of war that
the U.S. government would like the public to
believe - not the reality on the ground in Iraq.

How many houses were destroyed this weekend? How
many Americans and Iraqis have been killed? What
was it like for children who heard hundreds of
bombs exploding around them all day long? What
is happening in Basra, where the population no
longer has access to water or electricity? Who
are the people that are filling the hospitals?

TAKE ACTION

Join Media Alliance, Global Exchange, and CodePink
for a rally and picket at CNN to demand that this
worldwide news network provide Americans with the
images of war that people in other parts of the world are already seeing (see article below. Also check FAIR, Media Views, Common Dreams and MediaNews).

War is not pretty, but journalism is about
reporting the truth, whether it's pretty or not.

World and America watching different wars
http://csmonitor.com/2003/0325/p01s04-woiq.html

http://www.media-alliance.org

http://www.globalexchange.org

http://fair.org

http://www.fair.org/views.html

http://commondreams.org

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45