The Media and the Message: speaking the unspeakable in Philadelphia and Los Ange

by Sam Simon and Joshua Oppenheimer Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2000 at 2:05 PM
oppenheimer@post.harvard.edu

An analysis of corporate media media coverage of the convention protests.

The Media and the Message:

speaking the unspeakable in Philadelphia and Los Angeles

by Sam Simon and Joshua Oppenheimer

In the aftermath of the protests in Philadelphia, many protesters and sympathisers were angered by the way the mainstream press almost never mentioned the message of the protesters. We hear an awful lot about violence when one or two protestors break a limousine

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