KPIX Uses Federal Building Picture In News Article About Huge Protest On The 26th

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As this corporate photographer told us during the breakaway march. If there are no arrests, no broken windows etc… there is no reason for a story to be covered. He even yelled at the Indymedia photographers for taking pictures since obviously a march wasn’t news.

You can get a million people in the streets and it will still be back page news if “nothing happens”. But if a small demo with five people breaks one window or does something they think might look bad for the left, it’s a front page story. Seattle was a front page story nationwide BECAUSE a few windows were broken. These huge ant-war protests are hard to find on sites like http://www.nytimes.com, http://cnn.com, http://nbcnews.com http://www.abcnews.com, http://www.cbsnews.com and of course our local http://kpix.com and http://kron.com because the media lives off destruction and doesn’t want to cover anything peaceful. Only on kron was it a front page story under their news section and even there it would be hard to find unless you were looking for it. The BBC gave the DC and SF protests front page coverage on http://news.bbc.co.uk for most of last night but just 12 hours later its already submerged within a story about US threats to the Security Council. Remember how long Seattle and Genoa got coverage?

If windows are broken at future protests, maybe people should stop blaming anarchists and start blaming the American press.

Thanks for sharing that info . . . . Chron had reasonable coverage - aside from cutting the number in half - but then they had a whole section devoted to Simon & Davis!!!! Those f---kers. People should stage a ritual burning of that newspaper section in front of the Chron.

US journalists have almost all sunk to the level of the tabloids. If it doesn’t sell papers it's not news.

To see how unprofessional US journalists have become just compare US news sources to international ones. Coverage of Israel tends to be oversimplified and sympathetic to Sharon in the US but look at Israel’s haaretzdaily.com and you get a much better picture that is very critical of its government's policies. Compare the NYT, NPR or the Washington Post to the BBC and the depth and comparative lack of bias is staggering (and the BBC is a government news source that one would expect to be proBritish)

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yes, very disappointing. I'm not prepared to do direct action, like in the breakaway march, although I'd easily dress the same and stand next to people who would - but next time perhaps we should all do a loop through the KROn or Chronicle lobby and do the open-mic there before going on to other locations.

The thing is, a lot of people going to peace marches will outright say it - we are here because we want to express our thoughts to the people in power, even though we're not listening, and then when they go ahead and do bad things in other countries, you can tell your children in good conscience that you were on the right side. - like people who protested the Vietnam war can tell their children this (even though the war went on for 9 years after the protests started, and they basically ran out of people to kill). And the marchers *are* the good people, but it's sort of a judeo-christian/muslim sentiment that you should do the right thing for when you will be judged later by god, but because the actual deaths are in other countries rather than here, it doesn't ultimately matter so much whether the peace march has any small effect or not.

yes, very disappointing. I'm not prepared to do direct action, like in the breakaway march, although I'd easily dress the same and stand next to people who would - but next time perhaps we should all do a loop through the KROn or Chronicle lobby and do the open-mic there before going on to other locations.

The thing is, a lot of people going to peace marches will outright say it - we are here because we want to express our thoughts to the people in power, even though we're not listening, and then when they go ahead and do bad things in other countries, you can tell your children in good conscience that you were on the right side. - like people who protested the Vietnam war can tell their children this (even though the war went on for 9 years after the protests started, and they basically ran out of people to kill). And the marchers *are* the good people, but it's sort of a judeo-christian/muslim sentiment that you should do the right thing for when you will be judged later by god, but because the actual deaths are in other countries rather than here, it doesn't ultimately matter so much whether the peace march has any small effect or not.

yes, very disappointing. I'm not prepared to do direct action in front of police, like in the breakaway march, although I'd willingly dress the same and stand next to people who would - but next time perhaps we should all do a loop through the KGO or Chronicle lobby and do the open-mic there before going on to other locations.

The thing is, a lot of people going to peace marches will outright say it - they are here because we want to express our thoughts to the people in power, even though they're not listening, and then when they go ahead and do atrocious things in other countries, you can tell your children in good conscience that you were on the right side. - like people who protested the Vietnam war can tell their children this (even though the war went on for 9 years after the protests started, and they basically ran out of people to kill). And the marchers *are* the good people, but it's sort of a judeo-christian/muslim sentiment that you should technically do the right thing for when you will be judged later by god. But because the actual deaths are in other countries rather than here, it doesn't ultimately matter so much whether the peace march is successful or has any small effect or not.

The point of a protest is to get out and do something that makes you feel like you've actually done something when you haven't. Whether or not you get media coverage should not be a consideration. If you get one column inch buried on the back page of the classified section even mentioning the protest consider it a bonus.

Here is a Rob Morse column. First he criticizes having to be in a coalition with the whole range of other people (something I also do quite a bit - I criticize the IAC worker's world a lot) and he includes the direct action people in his description, yet two paragraphs later he very willingly admits that even if physically half of the people in the country went to an antiwar rally on Saturday, Bush wouldn't care. .... therefore you should go to antiwar rallies for your own sense of self-worth and esteem I guess???

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" A speaker was talking about the importance of a coalition to protest Bush's war plans in Iraq, whatever the politics of those in the coalition...As I worked my way up Market Street, I found some of the problems with alliances. A guy in a mask was smoking a cigarette through its mouth hole, while words came out about direct action -- generally a euphemism for breaking things.
...There also were the banners of the Marxist Spartacist League, which at demonstrations for decades has been selling the Workers Vanguard, a newspaper that greeted the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan with the headline "Hail Red Army."
Let's imagine that half the people in the nation turn out in their Sunday best for the next round of demonstrations, and TV and newspapers give them all their air time and front pages -- with no cute stuff about marching pets.

Does anyone believe Bush will listen? The only way he'll pay any attention is if Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice start chanting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, pre- emptive war has got to go."

In the meantime, someone else has to say it.

On the way back to the ferry on Saturday, I noticed a sign on top of the bronze walking stick of the statue of Gandhi in Ferry Plaza. It said, "Wage peace." There was a sense of humor in the placement of the sign, as well as serious intent.

Don't kid yourself. The more America attacks the world, the more the world will strike back. There is no defense against terrorism. Do you want to die from a terrorist's WMD? Then support Bush's war.

No, I beleive I'd rather die just sitting on my hands and doing nothing and just let the terrorists kill all of us and not put up a fight at all. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Well, that's what the right wing does best. Cause it seems to want to do nothing about the terrorists in the White House.

There are no terrorists in the White House unless you're someone who's inclined to believe the things you do.

By the way, I'm taking back my name. I used .......... years before you even showed up here and starting now I'm claiming back what is rightfully mine.

that's nice. What's in a name? This isn't a name anyway. Its just a row of dots. Go ahead, use it. Multiple people already do.

Hey, that's my name. If you're going to use it, you have to pay me royalties.

Sue me.