A sit in at the BBC
to protest
the war news
of
the pawns of BP
Author's Notes/Comments:
Activists are targeting the mainstream media for its pro-war bias on the invasion of Iraq. In the U.K., on April fools Day in Manchester, thirty people occupied the News International Office, which runs the Times and the Sun. Once inside they handed out literature to the staff before being painfully removed. In London, a protest outside the BBC was met with a line of police preventing access. The above actions followed a demonstration outside the Manchester BBC offices which saw two marches converge on the Headquarters. Earlier last week, BBC deputy Editor Mark Damazar was confronted with a barrage of questions at a public discussion organised by Media Workers Against the War criticising the pro-government war led agenda.
In the U.S., Faux News and CNN's New York City bureaus experienced their own April fools joke. In Washington, DC, "Code Pink" also protested the faux news of Fox News. In Los Angeles, thousands came out to protest CNN's pro-war cheerleading. There were also actions in San Francisco, in front of CNN and the Chronicle, as well as a pie-in-the-face for a local talking head.
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