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Excellent, must-watch presentation by Amy Goodman on independent media in a time of war, exposing our lack of one. Amy raises some interesting questions. If we had State-run media, how would it look any different? Did you know CNN has a different version of the news for the rest of the world, CNN vs. CNN International?

On CNN, all day we watched that statue pull down and went back up and pulled down again. On CNN International they also showed the statue pulled down but it was a split screen and on half the screen they showed the casualties of war and on the other half they showed the statue pull down.

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FAIR did a a study. In the week leading up to General Colin Powell going to the security council to make his case for the invasion and the week afterwards, this was the period where more than half of the people in this country were opposed to an invasion. They did a study of CBS evening news, NBC nightly news, ABC evening news and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. The four major newscasts. Two weeks. 393 interviews on war. 3 were anti-war voices. 3 of almost 400 and that included PBS. This has to be changed. It has to be challenged.