From September 25 to September 29, activists rallied in Washington, D.C. for the first large-scale U.S. protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. On Friday, September 27, several hundred people--including activists, bystanders and journalists--were arrested en masse in what appears to have been an illegal and politically motivated detention. For many mainstream media outlets, the arrests were barely worthy of comment. 'We want to leave peacefully' The arrests occurred during the first of the weekend's two most prominent actions, the Anti-Capitalist Convergence's "People's Strike." The ACC (abolishthebank.org) called on activists [...]
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Nov
01
2002
Another Day, Another Mass Arrest
Media unfazed by erosion of right to assemble
By Rachel Coen
Nov
12
1999
Does PBS Consider Women Part of the Public?
Biased Series Spurs Meeting With PBS; FAIR Organizes Feminist Coalition for National Campaign
On November 9, 1999, representatives from a national coalition of over 30 feminist, progressive groups and individuals--including Barbara Ehrenreich, Gloria Steinem, the National Organization for Women, the Feminist Majority Foundation, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and a variety of women and men from the labor, black, Latina and South Asian grassroots communities--met with PBS to discuss why a recent anti-feminist series was presented by the network as impartial journalism. Of particular concern was that the series aired in the context of a PBS lineup that, overall, under-represents women and people of color. Organized by FAIR's Women's Desk, the [...]
Mar
01
1997
The Media and the Menopause Industry
Advertising has muted dangers of estrogen therapy
You don’t get product ads unless you praise the product. --Gloria Steinem, founding editor of Ms. In his book Adverse Reactions, Thomas Maeder recalls the philosophy of Harry Loynd, an old-time president of Parke-Davis who was legendarily blunt. Loynd’s oft-repeated motto was “Pills are to sell, not to take.” He regarded physicians as extremely gullible, and lectured his staff, “If we put horse manure in a capsule we could sell it to 95 percent of these doctors.” Were he still among us, Loynd might have a great giggle over the fact that Wyeth-Ayerst’s 50-year-old Premarin, boldly named for its featured [...]
Mar
01
1996
Wild in Deceit
Why "Teen Violence" is Poverty Violence in Disguise
By Mike Males
In previous decades, American politicians and social scientists predicted waves of violence stemming from "impulsive" blacks, volatile Eastern European immigrants, "hot-blooded" Latin Americans, and other groups "scientifically" judged to harbor innately aggressive traits. In each case, the news media joined in vilifying whatever temporarily unpopular minority that politicians and pseudo-science had flocked to blame. And in each case, the branding of disfavored population groups as inherently violent has been disproven. (See Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man for examples.) In each case, violence has been found to be a straightforward function of poverty, income disparity. Here we go again. [...]
Jun
28
1994
Limbaugh Responds to FAIR
Responding to FAIR's charges printed by major print media outlets
"Reign of Error: From AIDS to ozone, from Whitewater to the Bible, Limbaugh seems to be able to dissemble and disinform on virtually any subject." -- report from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), listing "dozens of [Limbaugh's] statements and writings it says are inaccurate," Associated Press, June 28, 1994. "Limbaugh's Reign of Error" was printed in EXTRA!, the publication of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. "FAIR" was launched in the summer of 1987 with the financial assistance of The New World Foundation (NWF) which gave FAIR a $2,500 grant that year, according to NWF's 1987-1988 annual report. The Chair [...]
