Now we have an anonymous CBS employee emailing us and defending CBS's lies. Here is background for those of you not familiar with this story:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/proud2Blib/46My response to this anonymous employee:
We have pictures of Corva in handcufs. And we have a CBS spokewoman ON TAPE denying anyone was handcuffed or told to leave the event because of their signs. So we have proven CBS is lying. How can anyone defend that???
Ira Harritt and Mary Vincent are above reproach. Those of us who know them know they would NEVER lie and those of us who were there know they are telling the truth. As Tom Klammer pointed out, we have witnesses, CBS has a spokesperson with an agenda who is lying.
We also have pictures of signs promoting the war that CBS DID allow on the air. We have pictures of a sexually suggestive sign CBS allowed on the air. And I have a tape of the Early Show that proves these signs WERE allowed on the air. As I said in my letter to the newspaper that was not published, CBS allowed these signs but censored 'OUT OF IRAQ NOW'. They claim they didn't want controversy, yet they allowed signs that promoted a war that is opposed by the majority of Americans! The media is not supposed to control the message!!! Hello!!?? How much is the Bush administration paying CBS to promote its illegal war? What other explanation is there?
We also have a history with a local media that ignores us and promotes war mongers. And a national media that cheerleads for the worst president ever and his war, while ignoring the growing anti-war movement. I am asking every 'journalist' I correspond with to tell me if they know what the Downing Street Minutes are. If they say no, my point is proven. If our media had ignored the Pentagon Papers as they have ignored the Downing Street Minutes, we would still be in Vietnam. If Woodward and Bernstein had not bravely exposed the deceptions of the Nixon administration as today's 'reporters' have ignored Bush's lies, Nixon would never have resigned.
The thing that saddens me the most about this encounter with CBS is that we are reduced to email exchanges with anonymous employees instead of stories in newspapers and on television exposing what CBS did to us. We were censored, Corva was handcuffed and intimidated by cops, a CBS production assistant told us if our signs appeared on camera she "would lose her job" and no one other than one local reporter and the Progressive Magazine will tell the story.
You 'journalists' make me sick. You are complicit in this war and the resulting deaths of nearly a million people. You are complicit in the refusal to hold George Bush accountable. Do your fucking job!! Quit controlling the message and report the news, ALL of the news. How many viewers do you need to lose before you understand that you need to REPORT THE NEWS and stop controlling the message!!