Demo at NY Times re: WTO/Seattle outrageous factual screw-up

Seth Ackerman SAckerman at FAIR.org
Tue Jun 6 17:14:46 PDT 2000


I had an action alert all written up for FAIR yesterday. Then the Times had
to go and run a correction. Damn.

Seth

	Doug Henwood wrote:

> NYC Direct Action Network
> June 5th, 2000
> 
> www.directactionnetwork.org
> or  nyc-dan at riseup.net.
>   ________________________________________________
> 
> Our demo at the New York Times today, protesting their claim that Seattle
> protesters "hurled Molotov cocktails, rocks, and excrement at delgates and
> police officers", was a success!  We had excellent turnout (considering
> the extremely short notice), lots of energy, and great tools (signs,
> chants, leaflet).  And the Times factual screw-up was so outrageous that
> our publicizing it at their front door caused  them a certain amount of
> embarrassment.
> 
	[...]



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