Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response To FOX

On September 29, 2001, over 35,000 people across America protested George W. Bush's threatened attack on Afghanistan. That same day, similar protests took place in the Netherlands, Spain and Greece. American corporate media paid little attention. Two days later on October 1, 2001, thousands of Americans in New York City protested the proposed war on Afghanistan. Again corporate media paid little attention. Every consecutive year since September, 2001, when the United States first threatened to attack Afghanistan, and ever since the actual invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, thousands upon thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in America, but corporate media routinely ignores them.

What's newsy or corporatist about peace??

On September 12, 2002, up to 1,000 peacemakers gathered outside the United Nations to protest George W. Bush as he addressed the General Assembly. On this occasion they were opposing Bush's second planned war - his orchestrated, highly touted, media supported, shock and awe assault on Iraq. Back then, even future President Barack Obama was an anti-war protester.

On October 2, 2002, then-State Senator Obama from Illinois joined Jessie Jackson at an anti-war rally in Chicago. On that date our current President uttered the words that were referred to often throughout his 2008 campaign: "I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars," the young State Senator told the crowd. But few in the public, even the local Chicago public, likely knew of that peace gathering since corporate media diminished all protest. They even silenced their own. On February 25, 2003, before the U.S.' first official strike on Iraq, MSNBC fired legendary host, Phil Donahue, after a short stint on the air. The TV icon was fired for publicly questioning Bush and Cheney's rush to war.

Ever since the retributive blood lust that led to the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan nearly eight years ago, and ever since the frenzied maniacal obsession to topple Saddam Hussein that led to the invasion and occupation of Iraq over six years ago, MILLIONS in America and across the globe have rallied and protested to end the wars and bring the troops safely home. There have been approximately this many marches and rallies to end the war in Afghanistan, and approximately this many marches and rallies to end the war in Iraq. But corporate media has routinely ignored them, choosing instead to support their conservative cronies in the military industrial complex.

As a result of this abrogation of journalism, Americans have a depleted treasury, a rotting infrastructure, criminal healthcare, fiscal sociopathy, substandard education, a dumbed-down public, an ever-widening socio-political chasm, and idiots elected to and remaining in office for lack of effective vetting and investigation by a legitimate Fourth Estate.

Mr. Sanchez, with all due respect, as you've delivered your message to FOX, I have a message for you. Your tirade is juvenile, hypocritical, and dare I say, unprofessional. CNN shares in the decline of our media almost as much as FOX. CNN is, after all, the home base of Lou Dobbs. Need I say more?