The role of the mainstream media as
mouthpieces
of the White House and Pentagon has become even more blatant since the
start of the attack on Iraq. Protests receive scant coverage as many
corporate news websites and newspapers
shift their
focus to coverage of the invasion itself,
which the military
restricts
or
manipulates.
Despite all this, protests continue to rage across the country in
San
Fransisco,
New
York,
Chicago
and Washington,
DC.
Reports indicate that the corporate media has been
skewing protest size
estimates, inflating pro-war protests while
underestimating the size of antiwar protests. But the media has been not
just been misreporting news, but actively creating it in many cases:
ClearChannel Communications, which owns over 1200 radio stations in the
US, has sponsored pro-war
rallies in Atlanta, Cleveland, San Antonio,
Cincinnati and other cities.
[
FAIR
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