Jay and all,
Hay Jay, check CNN.com guy... Or turn your TV on to CNN.
Jay Fenello wrote:
> Well, it's 3:30 a.m. EST, and I have seen very
> little coverage of the riots. It's seems that
> the Pete Rose story is a much higher priority
> topic tonight!
>
> In other words, I'd say were in the midsts of
> another media blackout. For those who missed
> the last one, there is a good summary at:
> http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00677.html
>
> Consider the situation. We have a World Trade
> Organization meeting in Seattle, one that has
> delegates arriving from over 130 countries of
> the world, one that has been disrupted by riots
> in Seattle.
>
> The riots are so bad that police have reportedly
> fired rubber bullets, and used tear gas and pepper
> spray to disperse the thousands of protesters who
> took to the streets on Tuesday. Riots that were
> so bad that the opening WTO meeting was canceled.
> Riots that were so bad that the mayor of Seattle
> imposed a 7 p.m.-to-dawn curfew, and has called
> out the national guard.
>
> We practically have marshal law in Seattle, and
> yet, the Network news has done very little to
> cover the fiasco.
>
> On my cable system, I get all four networks,
> and I get CNN, CNNFN, CNN Headline News, CNBC,
> MSNBC, and Fox News. After hours of channel
> surfing, I have very little to report. Other
> than the three minute leader that is run at
> the top of the newscasts, I have seen little
> in depth coverage.
>
> [Compare this to the recent coverage given to
> the Kennedy search and rescue. We had non-stop
> coverage on every network for hours and hours,
> with live pictures of the empty ocean, and
> little else to report.]
>
> The media is obviously hiding this story!
>
> One blatant example is the current story running
> on MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/340805.asp#BODY
> It's one of the longest I've seen, yet it doesn't
> even mention why so many people are protesting.
> It's like the question WHY doesn't even exist!
>
> Not only are they hiding it, but they are even
> taking sides. The one in-depth news report that
> I did see was on MSNBC and featured a spokesperson
> for the White House. Unfortunately, she
> characterized the protestors as a confused bunch
> of disparate parties who were all protesting a
> disjunctive and contradictory slate of issues.
>
> Why the bias? -- you ask.
>
> The truth of the matter is that the riots in
> Seattle, the fight over ICANN, and the media
> blackout given to both topics, are all related.
>
> The riots in Seattle are about the loss of U.S.
> sovereignty to multinational corporations, just
> like the Domain Name Wars were about the loss of
> the Internet to the same multinational corporations.
>
> Not possible! -- you say.
>
> Consider that the media is owned by these same
> multinational corporations:
>
> "The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product
> that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and
> advertisers ... is absurd."
> -- Robert McChesney, journalist and author
>
> Consider that while knowledgeable people recognize
> the bias of the media in the U.S., the vast majority
> of Americans doubt that it is possible:
>
> "The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one
> of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country
> has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media
> all objectivity - much less dissent. "
> -- Gore Vidal, novelist and critic
>
> Consider the implications of this email:
>
> "Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption
> in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor
> to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the
> people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ...
> and the Republic is destroyed."
> -- Abraham Lincoln
>
> Until next time . . .
>
> Jay.
>
> At 09:31 PM 11/30/99 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >the national guard has just landed in seattle. should be an interesting
> >day tommorrow - a city full of pepper spray, tear gas, tree huggers,
> >labour unions, national guard and of course el presidente clinton.
> >Clintons gonna need more then a cigar tommorrow to pull it off.
> >
> >On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jeff Williams wrote:
> >
> > > Michael and all,
> > >
> > > I am watching CNN right now and Seattle has declared a
> > > civil emergency and the trade talks have been shut down
> > > temporarily. More than 20,000 AFL-CIO staged a rally
> > > at the Seattle stadium protesting the non representation of
> > > Unions in the trade talks. A curfew will be in effect in
> > > Seattle in two hours from now.
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > You wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Also, according to NBC news, the
> > > > >reason everyone is protesting is
> > > > >over "jobs." What a crock!
> > > >
> > > > The CBC just broadcast on shortwave radio an interview with an A.F.of
> > L. economist who said that the WTO rules and the WTO judiciary panels are
> > all one-sided because there are no representatives of labor. Sound familiar?
> > > >
> > > > ========================
> > > > Michael Sondow ICIIU
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iciiu.org
> > > > ========================
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > --
> > > Jeffrey A. Williams
> > > Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!)
> > > CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
> > > Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
> > > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Contact Number: 972-447-1894
> > > Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
> > >
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Jay Fenello,
> New Media Relations
> ------------------------------------
> http://www.fenello.com 770-392-9480
>
> "We are creating the most significant new jurisdiction
> we've known since the Louisiana purchase, yet we are
> building it just outside the constitution's review."
> -- Larry Lessig, Harvard Law School, on ICANN
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!)
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Contact Number: 972-447-1894
Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
