by Dave Lindorff

CounterPunch

09/15/04

Americans need to become aware how deeply antagonistic towards, and dangerous for American civil liberties like the right of free speech and assembly this current administration is. Our corporate media, whose highly paid and well-groomed reporters prefer to travel with the presidential motorcade and to broadcast promotional soundbites from the president, don't even see, much less bother to track down and interview the many people who have the courage and principle to come and try to protest. As a result, the average American doesn't even know that there is a vast sea of opposition to this president and his policies. Protests, as we saw in the coverage of the Republican National Convention, basically get reported on in the mass media only when there is violence or arrests...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp