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March 2, 2003
Fed-Up Viewers Say, "No More Lies!" People Smash Their TVs at NBC Studios
WASHINGTON, DC - Early Sunday morning [3-2-03], a group of disgruntled television viewers calling themselves "Meet The People" disowned their television sets in front of NBC studios to protest the pro-war media bias prevalent in Sunday morning talk shows. They then proceeded to smash the sets, under a banner that screamed, "Dismantle Weapons of Mass Deception."
One television smasher, Noah Hypocrisy, told reporters that he was fed-up with the invasion of the military-industrial-media complex in his life, especially in light of the impending war on Iraq: "In the United States and other Western powers, the corporate-owned media depend on the military for information, accepting what military officers at the Pentagon or the White House spinners offer as undeniable fact."
"I�m not that gullible, and I�m mad as hell at what I�m seeing on my television set!" Hypocrisy said, in between hammer strokes with what seemed to be a Titleist golf pitching wedge.
Another disenchanted viewer, Louisville Slugger in hand, lamented the heavy political biases she observes in the mainstream media: "In 2001, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, and CBS Evening News interviewed U.S. sources who were 92% white, 85% male, and 75% Republican," cried Ceci Truth. "How objective is that?!!!"
Timed for the taping of NBC�s Sunday morning talk show "Meet the Press," Meet the People barricaded the Nebraska Avenue entrance to the studios with a motley collection of their former television sets. Video of the dismantling will be available today at www.dc.indymedia.org .
The People were determined that this was only the start.
"We won�t stop here, and we encourage other thinking people to do similar actions. If the war on Iraq begins, we aren�t going to sit stupidly in our living rooms and accept the lies the corporate media try to feed us."
"We plan to seek out other weapons of mass deception: newspaper, radio, and other television studios. As their propaganda tries to drown out the truth, our level of disgust and resistance will escalate!"
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"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell
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