[thechat] Bush visits Portland, OR

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Thu Aug 22 03:00:01 CDT 2002


On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Erika Meyer wrote:

> Tomorrow.
>
> Crowds will mass to greet his corporateness.
>
> and if there is a shred of violence, the (corporate) media will leap
> all over it and make the protesters out to be psychotic criminals...
>
> if there is no violence, it may not be covered by the media at all.

...or alternatively, if there is no violence, some will be manufactured...

Cheers
Martin
now reading: Mark Steel's "Reasons to be Cheerful"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743208048/martin043

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