-Caveat Lector- Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper announced his resignation Dec 7, 1999. > > 12.6.99 > Fwd: Seattle's Sanitized Newsmedia > > > From Citizens For a Constitutional Washington > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Seattle's Sanitized Newsmedia > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:51:31 -0800 > From: "CCW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > NewsHawk, et al., > > Speaking from a 22-year background in radio & television broadcast, > including stints as news director for several radio stations in the Pacific > Northwest, I can with mature circumspection tell you that there was only ONE > broadcast outlet in Seattle who was even close to the real happenings, and > that was KIRO TV-7 in Seattle, a Cox Interactive Media station and long-time > CBS affiliate - although I have nothing nice to say about CBS or Dan > Rather-Biased. The rest of the newsmedia, including Fisher Broadcasting > Company's KOMO TV-4 (ABC) and A. H. Belo Corporation's KING TV-5 (NBC) > played the "fluff" tunes and coddled their viewers with more or less > positive "spins" on WTO and negative on the protestors. KOMO TV-4's News > Director, Joe Barnes, even went so far as to do an editorial that KOMO > wouldn't be covering the protestor's actions or anything that basically > wouldn't be considered "politically correct". KOMO didn't have much of > anything, insofar as news reporting is concerned and the five "W's" ... WHO, > WHAT, WHY, WHEN and WHERE, and how. They tended to be PRO-Mayor Paul Schell > and PRO-Police Chief Norm Stamper, playing the dialectic cards and > making it > appear that the protestor's were all wrong and the police were right. One > has to wonder what kind of political intrigue and money exists between the > hierarchy of some of these stations and certain other key officials to get > favored reporting. So much for a "free press". Both KOMO and KING made it > appear that the downtown corridor of businesses were literally destroyed and > boarded-up, and that was just not the case. The damage was not widespread. > KIRO, on the otherhand, tended to give "hard" news and last night's newscast > at 11PM was perhaps the most superb reporting I have seen to date. If anyone > wants to really see what went on during the "Battle in Seattle", KIRO's > video coverage was par-excellence. And the still pictures most of your > readership have now seen on the internet of the Ninja Stormtrooper kicking > the young man in the groin and then shooting him at point-blank-range with > rubber bullets was on last night's KIRO TV-7 Newscast. Here are a couple of > links from their website for further info: > > http://www.seattleinsider.com/news/1999/12/06/wtoresidents.html > > http://www.seattleinsider.com/news/1999/12/05/wtoprobe.html > > By the way, I've never worked for KIRO and this is totally legit with no > biases other than what I personally observed throughout the week of the > illegal WTO. Also, Mayor Schell and Police Chief Stamper have GOT TO GO, > i.e., "RESIGN NOW!" Under Schell's tutelage, the City of Seattle ordered 500 > sets of body armor and it was a RUSH order that had to be shipped no later > than October. The black body armor came from Second Chance Body Armor, > Central Lake, Michigan. So, for the Mayor and Police Chief to claim that > they were "overwhelmed" is nonsense. They had PLANNED their little black > Ninja stormtrooper party months ago! And who knows but what there were many > agent provocateurs engaged in creating some of the mayhem in order to > condition the people for what next happened on day 2 of the WTO - a MASSIVE > show of force by police and MASSIVE POLICE BRUTALITY. > > /s/ John R. Prukop, Legal Researcher > > "Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it." > --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man ("Conclusion") > > "All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." > --Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (2 Cranch) 137 (1803) > > CCW Coalition > Concerned Citizens Of Washington > Citizens For A Constitutional Washington > John R. Prukop, Executive Director > 11910-C Meridian Ave. E., #142 > Puyallup, Washington 98373 > TEL: (253) 840-8071 > FAX: (253) 840-8074 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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