Trees Falling on the Chimperor's Clothes

A very large tree falls in the forest, everyone sees and feels it, but the town crier claims it didn't 'cause it might soil the Chimperor's new clothes.

Back in '03 The New York Pravda, with its fresh installation of William Kennard (Clinton-Carlyle apparatichik) on its Board of Directors, tried to pretend there were only a couple of thousand antiwar protestors in DC on February 15th, when it was more than 200,000 in both DC and San Francisco, 500,000 in NYC, and millions across the world in the single largest non-violent protest event in human history.

Media Bloodhound:

...FACT: First of all, a demonstration of equal or greater size (according to varying estimates) occurred in San Francisco on the same day. The Times did report the San Francisco protest in its corresponding 2003 article (a link is provided beneath the timeline). So, to put it mildly, it's a peculiar omission. Additionally, employing terminology such as "tens of thousands" rather than, say, 200,000 - the estimated number of participants in both DC and San Francisco on Jan. 18, 2003 - is patently misleading. (The San Francisco police department's original calculations, by the way, were 40,000 before it altered its count several times, from 55,000 to 100,000-125,000 a few days later, to then stating 150,000 a "safe estimate," while also conceding it could've been closer to 200,000.) The mainstream media, led by The Times, has regularly used such language to describe the number of Iraq War protesters. Such statistically blunting nomenclature has been a gift to the Bush White House and an assault on the most American of activities: peaceful dissent.

As the Jan. 26, 2003 editorial in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat noted: "A demonstration of 40,000 is newsworthy. A protest of 150,000 to 200,000 is historic."

Yet even more egregious than this entry was the timeline's failure to mention what was arguably the single largest day of protest in recorded human history: February 15, 2003, in which up to 30 million people in over 600 towns and cities across the globe protested the imminent invasion of Iraq. Roughly half a million people gathered in New York City alone. The 3 million who protested in Rome entered the Guinness World Records as the "Largest Anti-War Rally" ever...

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The people managing The New York Pravda have a heavy investment in keeping the Endless War endless, it's just they'd rather it was their own faction of the world's largest private equity group managing the fourth branch of government instead of Dick Cheney's faction.