MediaChannel.org and United For Peace And Justice have announced that a day of media protest will now kick off this years week-long “spring offensive” against the war, just before the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.
Media Action is crucial. Those who control the media control what people know, what they think. My husband and I recently had a conversation with a family member about the racism in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. He didn’t believe some of what we were saying because he didn’t “see it on tv”. Yet, there is incident after incident of racism documented that didn’t make it onto fox news.
We need to hold the media accountable. If the media won’t be accountable we need to go to independent news organizations and, even better, become the media. Regardless of one’s political beliefs, one should know the bias of the news.