[Peace-discuss] transcripts of P4P TV coverage

[Ricky Baldwin]

Thanks, Randall!

This is great to have.  It reminds me, by the way,
that the WCIA reporter also asked me how we felt about
the police presence - and I told him we had called the
police, just to let them know there would be a
counterdemo - but that part was cut, along with the
numbers I gave him.

We need letters!

Ricky

PS- Below, I think Randall means to say "WCIA had a
longer piece," not WAND.


--- Randall Cotton <recotton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> WAND had no coverage as best I can tell.
>
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> WICD had a pretty short piece. They led off showing
> the pro-war side. I
> missed recording the first few seconds, but here's
> what I got...
> 
> [anchor with running protest footage and a
> momentarily superimposed graphic
> "Pro-America & Anti-War Rallies"] ...protestors in
> Champaign on North
> Prospect Avenue. They took to the streets with flags
> and signs to support
> our troops and our government's decisions. And, of
> course, along the same
> road, as we see every Saturday, anti-war protestors.
> All in all both groups
> attracted about 200 people and there were no reports
> of trouble.
> [end]
> 
> [pro-war footage included prominent close-ups of
> "Support our Troops" and
> American Flags]
> [anti-war footage included prominent close-ups of
> the conga drummer and his
> "Pancakes not War" sign, a fairly long shot of "Get
> a Clue America! Invasion
> will only breed MORE Terrorists" and a shot of our
> group of Muslim women]
> 
> pro-war footage: about 6.5 seconds (incomplete)
> anti-war footage: about 14 seconds
> 
> again, keep in mind I missed recording the first
> portion of the coverage.
>
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> WAND had a longer piece:
> 
> [anchorman] Well, as the President continues to drum
> up support for war with
> Iraq, the debate hit the streets in Champaign today.
> 
> [graphic shown saying  "Showdown with Saddam" and
> "War of Words"]
> 
> [anchorwoman] Anti-war protestors have staged
> several demonstrations along
> Prospect Avenue lately. Today, they were joined by
> demonstrators supporting
> US troops. Photojournalist Mike Shaheen shows us the
> "war of words".
> 
> [footage of pro-war protestors]
> 
> [footage of Mark Thompson, credited by name in a
> graphic identifying him as
> "pro-troops" and precisely framed to include the
> "Slot and Wing" logo on his
> shirt, part of his "Slot and Wing Hobby" store in
> the background  ( you
> could see "D WING") and a flag mounted on his store
> waving in the background
> right next to him in the footage - the waving flag,
> in particular, was
> undeniably intentional]
> 
> ...a lot of people believe in our country, they
> believe in the fact that
> we're up against the wall...
> 
> [footage of anti-war protestors - specifically the
> conga-drum player (who
> was wearing the easily visible "Pancakes not War"
> sign)]
> 
> [footage of Ricky, credited by name in graphic
> identifying him as
> "anti-war"]
> ...we agreed to, uh, keep a little separation and
> space between the
> groups...
> 
> [footage of pro-war protestors with prominent "Free
> Iraq" signs]
> Free Iraq! .... Free Iraq!
> 
> [footage of Ricky] they can do their thing, we'll
> keep doing our thing
> 
> [footage of our group of demonstrating Muslim women
> cheering with a short
> close-up of "We're not with stupid" sign]
> 
> [footage of Ricky]  ...we were doing our part to
> make sure that there was no
> conflict [cut to short shot of 5 police officers
> standing together,
> observing the demonstration] and they spoke with
> them and they're doing
> their part...
> 
> [footage of anti-war protestors, specifically the
> accordion player]
> 
> [footage of Mark Thompson with same precision
> framing as before] We're not
> here to bash anti-war protestors. That's not the
> issue at all. They have to
> understand they're lucky to be here - to be able to
> do what they're doing.
> [cut to video of the biggest crane-hoisted flag,
> filling the entire screen,
> which runs to the end of the piece] That's a freedom
> that they attained
> through the blood of an awful lot of our men and
> women...
> [end]
> 
> total segment length: 1m 9s
> 
> anti-war footage: about 22s
> pro-war footage: about 25s
> 
> In my opinion, though the actual footage division
> was fairly even, the piece
> was carefully crafted to cast a favorable spotlight
> on the pro-war side,
> while offering little substance on the anti-war
> side.
> 
> Big surprise =8-P
>
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> For what it's worth, just after 3PM (probably close
> to peak for both groups,
> I would guess), I ran the complete circuit on both
> sides of the street and
> counted:
> 
> 285 anti-war folks
> 55   pro-war folks
> 
> There may have been some anti-war protestors by the
> pond in front of Lowe's,
> though, that I would have missed. I'm told there
> were some there, but I
> never even thought to look.
> 
> R
> 
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