Kennis On Corporate Media In Genoa
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The Strawman's Revenge -
IMC's E-zine Of Media Analysis
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U.S. Corporate Media Fails Again In Genoa
Yet Another Round of Anti-Globalization Protests Misreported
By Andrew Kennis
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During the recent G8 summit in Genoa, some 300,000 people gathered to protest, but U.S. corporate media only reported 100,000. But they missed more than just 200,000 people. The major issue of debt cancellation was entirely missed. The rare attention given to "debt relief" completely obscured the nature of the more fundamental demand for cancellation, as well as its legal and historical foundations. Coverage of police violence was similarly superficial and devoid of the "tough questions" the media is supposed to ask. The police raid on independent journalists at the IMC went virtually unreported.
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During the recent G8 summit in Genoa, a meeting where leaders of the seven countries largest economies in the world (as well as Russia) gathered to discuss economic and security issues, there were protests with some 300,000 people in attendance. The much lower figure of 100,000, were only the official Italian government figures |
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