Black-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to Those Veterans Chained to the White House Fence

[Catherina]

Black-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to Those Veterans Chained to the White House Fence
by Dave Lindorff

There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, and their civilian supporters, chained and tied themselves to the White House fence during an early snowstorm to say enough is enough.

Washington Police arrested 135 of the protesters, in what is being called the largest mass detention in recent years. Among those arrested were Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who used to provide the president's daily briefings, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the government's Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration, and Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York Times.



No major US news media reported on the demonstration or the arrests. It was blacked out of the New York Times, blacked out of the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked out in the Los Angeles Times, blacked out of the Wall Street Journal, and even blacked out of the capital's local daily, the Washington Post.

Making the media cover-up of the protest all the more outrageous was the fact that most news media did report on Friday, the day after the protest, the results of the latest poll of American attitudes towards the Afghanistan War, an ABC/Washington Post Poll which found that 60% of Americans now feel that war has "not been worth it." That's a big increase from the 53% who said they opposed the war in July.

Clearly, any honest journalist and editor would see a news link between such a poll result and an anti-war protest at the White House led, for the first time in recent memory, by a veterans organization, the group Veterans for Peace, in which veterans of the nation's wars actually put themselves on the line to be arrested to protest a current war.

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/19-1

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. If you don't cover it, it never happened

see, how that works.

Alternate press.

[itsrobert]

2. There must have been a Tea Party convention at the Oxnard Starbucks

that needed to be covered instead.

[HipChick]

3. ...there was plenty of coverage here..

in DC..

[Lucinda]

4. There are some great threads floating around from the other day

LOTS of wonderful photos. Hard to top that shot of Ellsberg though. I love it.

[Rex]

5. It seems no matter what party is in office, a certian group of mega

news corps always work to make sure the govt can be seen as having no fault...then turn right around the next day and HAMMER the govt over differences in said news corps political agenda and the govts.

Funny how that works. Almost like freedom of speech only applies when their agenda is at stake. Of course the agenda is to make more money, but something else too? Or not?

[w8liftinglady]

6. my partner and I looked everywhere for info

he said he had heard "a person was arrested"
I told him they were the same folks who were at the Bush Library event(the same one I warned him he may have to bail ME out of)

NO info...not even Public radio.We didn't have internet access at the time,but no mention on abc,cbs,nbc.lots of news about Christmas.Nice commercials about troops saying "hi" from overseas.

as usual...blink-they're gone.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I just checked Google news for past week.

Hardly a mention.

Mercury News in Solicon Valley printed some info, from the AP wire,
CNN buried it deep online, with only this picture, followed by a dicussion of troop withdrawals:



Democracy NOW covered it, as did Huff Po.

And that was it, here in USA.

My god....if a tree falls, there IS no sound.

Quite chilling.

[pretzel4gore]

7. if the pigmedia telling the people what they THINK they think

doesn't work, they tell them what they THINK they think they THINK! AND...if that don't work, the pigmedia tells them what they THINK they think they think they THINK! and if that doan work...!!
Eventually, it works ;)
it has to work!

[Quantess]

9. K & R

This is the first I have heard of it.

[burrowowl]

10. K&R