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| Anti-war activists picket Fox News |
| 2003-04-04 |
| Anti-war activists gathered in front of the Fox News Channel offices in Washington on Thursday to protest the network's coverage of the war in Iraq. Organized by Code Pink, Global Exchange, and Media Alliance, the event drew about 75 protesters. Snicker In a letter to the bureau, Code Pink told Fox News it not reporting the events in Iraq objectively. "We are writing to remind the Fox News Channel that according to your own promotions, you are supposed to be 'fair and balanced,'" the letter said. "You seem to have forgotten this motto in your coverage of the war in Iraq. You also seem to have forgotten some of the basic precepts of journalism — such as the one that journalists are supposed to report the truth." |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #10 i highly recommend renting a megaphone and going to contest the protesters they will look at you with utter shock they honestly believe they speak for the whole non-corporate world and that everyone agrees with them. one well-informed rantburger with a megaphone can truly work wonders. oh yeah: they can't attack you either, as you are one person against 75 or 1000 or whatever, YOU have become the moral underdog, with all the pointscoring that gets you with the left. |
| Posted by: anon1 2003-04-04 18:31:42 |
| #9 Growler - you are correct - I didn't notice the washington location |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-04 14:34:09 |
| #8 snicker! Not a bad turnout considering the millions they rake in to help organize just such an event. |
| Posted by: becky 2003-04-04 14:20:16 |
| #7 They protested Fox news because they won't stop broadcasting things they dont want to hear. |
| Posted by: g wiz 2003-04-04 13:02:49 |
| #6 If Fox were fair and balanced and thorough (they don't make that last claim), they would report how Code Pink, etc. have accepted tainted money. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-04-04 12:10:50 |
| #5 Frank G. - That ticker-taunting preotest was here in NYC. |
| Posted by: growler 2003-04-04 10:19:23 |
| #4 Maybe we'll start the war over again and deliberately lose it just to keep these people happy. Wonder what life's like in Bizzarro World? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-04 10:04:14 |
| #3 Hee-hee-haaa-hoot! *snrk* What a hell of a gathering that was! *sniggle* Hoo! Yep. A mojority of our popular consensus there. *hic* Heee! I've seen more people get upset over a bad referee's call at a PeeWee soccer game. Oh - wait. Doesn't Code Pink tend to masquerade as Soccer Moms(TM)?! THAT's where the 75 came from, then. *snrk* |
| Posted by: Tadderly 2003-04-04 09:55:52 |
| #2 There was another one in SF yesterday. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2003-04-04 09:55:50 |
| #1 If this was the protest a couple days ago, there was a story about it noting that the "news ticker" that shows the news on the outside of the building was used by Fox to taunt the hecklers...heh heh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-04 09:54:40 |