[IMC-NYC] Whose side are we on?

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:48:48PM -0700, mike burke wrote:
> 
> Regardless of your feelings on Nader, the fact that
> 15,000 peopple paid $20 and sold out Madison Square
> Garden to attend a progressive political rally on a
> Friday night in New York City is quite remarkable.
> Nader claimed it was the largest political rally of
> the year, it may be the largest presidential rally of
> many of our lifetimes. I can never recall any
> presidential event that attracted such crowds, but I
> can't say for certain. For this reason alone, I feel,
> the Nader event deserved to be covered in depth by the
> IMC.

I think this has also brought out another very important issue
which can now be pointed to with some authority, namely the
suppression of news by the corporate media. We should not let
this go. There is no question that this was a major news story,
there was plenty of notice given for the mainstream media to cover
it, yet they chose to ignore it. We should go to each and every 
news outlet and demand to know WHY they failed to carry this
story. And for those outlets who use the public airwaves, we should
begin the process of challenging their licences. That's right, take
away the licenses of those who don't serve the community. The only
reason this hasn't already happened is because we've never had this
amount of people determined to do it before. Imagine the IMC 
getting a major broadcast license in New York. It's not impossible.

emmanuel