Last week 100,000 people demanding an end to the war in Iraq marched on Washington, D.C., while 300 people were rallying in favor of the war. On CNN, there was about 30 seconds of coverage that said pro and anti-war protesters go to D.C. It seems to me that even if there are 1 million people marching on D.C., if the mainstream media doesn't cover it, then it didn't happen.
Since the Republicans will never act to end this war, the Democrats are still weakly opposing it and the media is not accurately covering it, why don't we direct our protests at the media themselves, rather than at the politicians.
Imagine 5,000 people surrounding Matt Lauer on The Today Show with signs saying End This War Now! Imagine 5,000 people holding a sit-in simultaneously at 7 p.m at NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox studios, as well as at the NY Times, the Wall Street Joural and the Washington Post. The impact of those 35,000 people would be the equivalent of 3,500,000. We need to get more active. Writing letters and signing MoveOn petitions seems to be of little effect. We have the least popular President in history, the least popular Congress in history over which the Democrats just took control, 70 percent of the American people in favor of withdrawal and still our countrymen are dying every day with no end in site. It is time to get active and start making some serious noise. The only people we should look to to stop this war is ourselves.