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[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 9:11 PM -0600 11/22/02, s-t-t at juno.com wrote:
>  > The point that I wish to make here is that criticism within the
>>  movement is and should be a two-way street.  "Movement journalists"
>>  should be encouraged to criticize, fairly and accurately, the
>>  shortcomings of the social movement in which they take part;
>>  organizers and activists in the movement on which "movement
>>  journalists" comment, in turn, should be encouraged to criticize
>>  their articles, again fairly and accurately.  Only then can both grow.
>
>"In Washington [...] a community in which the management of news has
>become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what
>'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement
>to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which
>is to say as it is manufactured."
>
>-- Joan Diddion, "Political Pornography" in _Political Fictions_

You are equating activists with Washington insiders who actually 
manufacture at least two thirds (according to the video _Project 
Censored: Is the Press Really Free?_, 
<http://www.projectcensored.org/store.html>) of the news.  That's 
Orwellian.
-- 
Yoshie

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