Protesters denounce media at CNN's San Francisco
office
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO -- Marching in front of news reporters and cameras,
protesters staged a demonstration outside of Cable News Network's San
Francisco bureau today to denounce what they believe is unbalanced media
coverage of the war in Iraq.
Beginning at noon, more than 150 activists assembled outside of CNN's
offices at 50 California St. to protest what they claim is an
underreporting of Iraq casualties and too much reporting of American
patriotism by national news networks.
Some protesters laid small white coffins bearing pictures of children on
the sidewalk and others chanted, "independent journalism is dead and
gone when the media is in bed with the Pentagon."
"We are here to say that bombs are not smart," demonstration
spokeswoman Medea Benjamin, dressed in fake blood covered clothing and
clutching a bloody baby doll, said to the crowd. "Show us what
collateral damage really means."
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