The f**ckin' "LIBRUL" NYTimes has ONE article about the protests in the US

[BrklynLiberal]

on PAGE 35!!!!! and absolutely none about all the International protests, and, of course 6 articles about the gawdamm "sheeahvoo" case.

March 20, 2005
Two Years After Iraq Invasion, Protesters Hold Small Rallies
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN

Two years after the American-led invasion of Iraq, relatively small crowds of demonstrators - the home guard of the antiwar movement - mobilized yesterday in New York, San Francisco and cities and towns across the nation to condemn the war and demand the withdrawal of allied forces.

Thousands joined similar protests in European cities. On both sides of the Atlantic, the protests were passionate but largely peaceful, and nowhere near as big as those in February 2003, just before the war, when millions around the world marched to urge President Bush not to attack.

The American crowds ranged from about 350 in Times Square to several thousand in San Francisco. And in contrast to the vociferous rage of demonstrations two years ago, yesterday's protests were mostly somber and low-key, with marchers carrying cardboard coffins in silence to the beat of funereal drums, with rally speakers alluding often to the war dead and subdued crowds keeping behind police barriers.

Still, defiant resolution swirled in the afternoon air. "I don't like it," Ed Hedemann, 60, of Brooklyn, said of his impending arrest at a Flatbush Avenue recruiting station. "But there comes a time when, with the killing that's going on now, people have to stand up and say no. If that means getting arrested, that's a small sacrifice to make."
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more....

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/national/20protests.html?

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Quite frankly, i was expecting zero. nt

[NecessaryOnslaught]

2. "Intellectual prostitutes"

"There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare to write his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand they would never appear in print. I am paid $150 a week for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should permit honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, like Othello, before twenty-four hours, my occupation would be gone.

The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his race and his country for his daily bread. You know this and I know it, and what folly is this to be toasting an 'independent press'! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

-- John Swinton, New York Times editor, speech to journalists at the Twilight Club in New York City, 1883-04-12
(source: George Seldes, "The Great Quotations", Lyle Stuart, New York, 1960. P. 671.)

[katinmn]

3. Rove didn't give them permission to publish anything on page 1

better luck next year.

:grr:

[Southsideirish]

4. Sorry, that's all that Karl and Dick would allow them to have!

[Briar]

5. It's doing better than the Guardian

or Independent then. I couldn't find a whisper of a mention in their on line editions.

Not that I was alert this morning...

[katinmn]

6. Another media blackout. Guess we need to get louder!

[Meeker Morgan]

7. Not really "fit to print" because ...

... no busted heads, not even a broken window. A few arrests for obstructing traffic and the like.

Nothing to see here, move along. :puke:

[ixion]

8. thousands protest all across the nation, yet the protest is called 'small'

way to downplay that there, NYTimes. :grr:

[Nile]

9. 10's of millions did not protest.

Our town's turnout was two. Two frigging protesters. Town has close to 40,000 population and only two show up.