Oregon Newspaper Industry Censures the News!
MORE INDEPENDENT MEDIA NEEDED NOW, 22.05.2005 11:47
YESTERDAY 5000 State Workers journeyed to Salem from all corners of Oregon and converged in Riverfront Park at noon. From there a huge wave of SEIU purple marched threw Salem streets and then gathered on the capitol mall. The issue was simple. State workers were standing up for all working people in their fight for fairness. NO COST SHIFTING OUR HEALTHCARE (from employer to employee) was the strong rally-cry made by thousands of workers. A demonstration of the likes has not been seen for ten years.
WITH LIMITED STATE-WIDE COVERAGE IN MAINSTREAM NEWS* MOST OREGONIANS DID NOT SEE THE STORY ON EVENING TV OR READ ABOUT IT IN THEIR NEWSPAPERS.
*oregonian story section B-page2 and statesman journal article - all other newspapers in the state were silent.
SO IF MOST STATE MEDIA IGNORED THIS HISTORIC UNION CONVERGENCE: Did it even happen?
Oregon Media Censured This Story!!! How can they get away with not reporting the voices of 5000 workers? It seems criminal, but it actually is their right. Its called Free Speech - In a very strange orwellian twist they actually have the right to NOT report the news...
WATCH ROGUE INDY MEDIA FOR COVERAGE OF THE MAY 21 CONVERGENCE IN SALEM. PROOF POSTIVE - THEY CENSURE THE NEWS.
To Scot Bolsinger, Editor Ashland Daily Tidings
Hi Scot.
5000 State employees on the Salem capitol mall yesterday. We bussed in from all over the state. HUGE March and Rally.
NOTHING AT ALL in this morning's Oregonian or Medford Mail Tribune.
What excuse can you possibly imagine might be made by your industry?
So sorry to see such irresponsiblity. And its our very Domocracy that is losing. What can you imagine your fellow editors might say, what excuse could there be, any clue?
I look forward to coverage in the Tidings. It is a local story, too. A bus from Medford transported Medford & Ashland workers and another bus originated from Grants Pass. The local rank and file trade unionists who travelled from the Rogue Valley to Salem represent thousands of state workers in Jackson and Josephine counties.
I'm not the A/P, but do have remarkable photos and video, too, and can prove what I'm telling you. It did take place! - yesterday in Salem. When a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it did it take place? We were there!!!
Totally Shocked,
Wes-
p.s. It looks like Saddam Hussein in his underwear did get good Oregon newspaper coverage
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CORRECTION POST SCRIPT: It has been learned that the Oregonian did have an article on pg.2 of section B, the METRO, and the on-line edition of the Salem Stateman Journal has an article... But after that it continues that no regional papers around the state ran any coverage