After reading Henry Porter's beautifully written diary http://www.dailykos.com/...
about his remembrances of the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK and after commenting that we need to hold the media's collective hand to the fire, I decided that it would be irresponsible not to call them out for their failures in calling lies, well, lies and doing what is their patriotic duty to protect the President and our Country.
I took Henry's diary as a call to arms to be heard loudly and clearly on this.
I've decided to email and/or write all of the major news outlets and remind them that it was their failure to hold Bush's lies up to the light of real journalism that directly led to the war in Iraq. Not apparently having learned from this failure that led to the deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's, they are now willing to report, without comment, the egregious lies, misstatements, and distortions about President Obama and his policies that daily pass through their cameras and microphones.
These lies could have the possible effect of some easily led lunatic to not only bring a gun to a political or social event but to bring one and start shooting. The victim could be our President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, or any other unsuspecting person of a disfavored religion, ethnic background, race, or sexual orientation. And since they will not call a 'real' lie a lie, the blood will be on their collective hands. They, the once revered Fourth Estate, will have finally, once and for all, assisted in helping this country to come apart at the seams should this violence occur.
So, I'm writing a letter. No, many letters to every outlet I can think of, including FoKKKx, to let them know that if our President meets with violence at the hands of someone who might have been stopped if the lies had been stopped and cooler heads had prevailed, the rioting and violence and economic disaster that would rain down on our already fragile country and economy will have their blessing and blame. We've been doing this online...speaking truth to power...for some time. Now it's time to not only sign petitions for health care reform but to do everything we can to protect our President, our Senators, and our citizens. Here are some address I've collected toward this effort. Please, please join me and write a letter or email.
ABC
77 West 66th Street
New York, New York 10023
Web site: http://www.abcnews.com
Washington bureau:
1717 DeSales Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
CBS
524 West 57th Street
New York, New York 10019
Web site: http://cbsnews.cbs.com/
Washington bureau:
2020 M Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
CNN:
P.O. Box 105366
One CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia 30348
e-mail: feedback@cnn.com; cnn.onair@cnn.com;
crossfire@cnn.com
Web site: http://cnn.com
Washington bureau:
820 First Street NE, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20002
New York bureau for CNN and CNNfn:
CNN
1 Time Warner Center
New York, NY 10019
(212) 275-7800
Fox News:
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036
e-mail: comments@foxnews.com
Web site: http://www.foxnews.com
Washington bureau:
400 North Capitol St. NW, Suite 550
Washington, D.C. 20001
MSNBC & CNBC:
900 Sylvan Ave
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
e-mail: thecall@cnbc.com
Web site: http://www.cnbc.com
30 Rockefeller Plz
3rd Fl
New York, NY 10112
e-mail: hardball@msnbc.com
countdown@msnbc.com
joe@msnbc.com
MTP@NBC.com
abramsreport@msnbc.com
Web site: http://www.msnbc.msn.com
NBC News:
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112
e-mail: dateline@news.nbc.com; nightly@news.nbc.com
today@news.nbc.com; MTP@nbc.com
Web site: http://www.nbc.com
Washington bureau for NBC News and MSNBC:
4001 Nebraska Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20016
NPR:
635 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Web site: http://www.npr.org
PBS:
2100 Crystal Dr
Arlington, VA 22202
Web site: http://www.pbs.org
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
2700 South Quincy Street
Arlington, VA 22206
Web site: http://www.pbs.org/...
Please join me in writing to any and all of the news outlets listed. We need to be sure that everyone is involved in protecting the country and The President.