Fuck the New York Times and Fuck 'Permitted' Marches (Mickey Z.)

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Sept. 26, 2009 -- On Sept. 26, 2009, the New York Times deemed it fit to run an article called "Thousands Hold Peaceful March at G-20 Summit," in which propagandist Ian Urbina informed us of "several thousand demonstrators" converging on downtown Pittsburgh in light of that city's hosting of the Group of 20 (G-20) meeting. Urbina called it a "peaceful and permitted march." The demonstrators, he said, were "calling for solutions to a range of problems that they attributed to the economic policies of the world leaders." Later, he told of speakers urging demonstrators to "fight for an array of social issues they felt had been largely ignored in global economic policy."

"They attributed" and "they felt."

Okay, in a rare case of actual objectivity, Urbina was careful to clarify that not everyone agrees with the protesters. However, that's where the any attempt at journalism ended. If Urbina were capable of even an iota of independent thought, he'd have found out why demonstrators feel and attribute what they feel and attribute. But…it's so much easier to just describe what they looked liked.

Some wore fatigues, some chimed cymbals, one played a French horn, 400 "self-described anarchists" were clad in black, and dig this: one very radical group even "held aloft with bamboo poles a giant fabric replica of a dove." None of these dissidents, Urbina reminded us, ever got closer than the steps of the city-county building, blocks from where the G-20 meeting was being held.

Ain't dissent neat? Surely peace and justice will be upon us soon.

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1. Here's an excellent diagram of a "free speech zone".

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2. free speech zones... one more thing that hasn't changed.

:grr: :argh: