Been watching our (local) coverage of the WTC in Miami this week. It has been very disturbing.



The media weeks before the conference broadcasted daily about the possibilities of riots here and what happen. During the week several times the media (TV News we watched ABC and CBS) openly speculated on the air why the protesters were not at (for example)such and such an address because a banquet/event that had key Trade Officials attending was going to be at (name of locality and address)starting at (named time)...and the protesters would REALLY NEED to be there. They announced every opportunity for protesters well in advance and often made statements that seemed designed to agitate any protesters har might be listening.



The coverage was extremely biased. The cameras focused on the protesters that were the most outlandish or violent and when ever they ran into one that tried to explain (intelligently) the reason for protesting (the conference) the newsperson cut them off. They then would switch to a protester that was wearing an ape suit or something outlandish and make the comment "Do they look intelligent?"



The biggest thing that was lacking in the coverage was an intelligent discussion of the issues pro/con. Why was there a conference? What did they hope to acomplish here? Why were these people against it? Anyone watching the News would never know. It was burried under nothing but Hype and sensationalism about the protests themselves.

Frank
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