[Peace-discuss] local media distortions

[Ricky Baldwin]

Channel 3 was just as bad.  Their teaser before the
10:00 news reported "a huge rally" in support of
troops and "many others" protesting against war with
Iraq!  Then the actual story ("a war of words")
focussed on the counterdemo, with footage from every
angle, some at the beginning and some at the end of
the story.  They showed short clips of my answer to
their question of whether the counterdemo bothered us,
and edited out the part where I told them we had over
300 compared to their 50-60.  Their story contained no
numbers.

We need folks to call both stations, write them, and
write the News-Gazette about them.  This has been
effective in the past.  

Paul Wood also tells me his story will probably be in
Monday's News-Gazette.  We need to watch for it.  I
have sent N-G, 3, 15, WAND, WILL, DI, etc. a press
release with the real numbers.

Ricky


--- John Fettig <jfettig at students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> * Peter Rohloff <rohloff at uiuc.edu>: 
> > A big hand is in order for Ricky for his mediating
> work in preparation 
> > for P4P this week!
> > 
> > By my count, we had almost 300 people. And,
> despite the counterprotest, 
> > things could hardly have gone more smoothly.
> Spirits were high, and 
> > conflict was very minimal!
> 
> GRRR!!!! "Newschannel" 15 reported that both sides
> attracted 200 people!
> And they gave most of the video footage to the
> pro-war people!  I called
> them immediately after the piece aired to correct
> them (300 of us, 40 of
> them), but I'm doubtful that they are going to
> correct their error.
> 
> John 
> 
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