looking for a bit more mainstream article on the mass arrests last week

[Kali]

I got this in an email and was just about to forward it to various wingnut relatives and aquaintences when I realised the source would just be attacked and the message ignored as usual. Anybody know of a similar article in a more mainstream source? (and yes, I do realize I am asking the impossible)

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/arr-a16.shtml


Excerpt:

US Marshals, local police stage nationwide mass arrests
By Bill Van Auken 16 April 2005


In a massive dragnet, US Marshals led more than 90 state, local and other
federal police agencies last week in arresting over 10,000 people across
the country on outstanding warrants, the Justice Department revealed
Thursday.

Code-named Operation Falcon, for Federal and Local Cops Organized
Nationally, the unprecedented federally-coordinated mass arrests were staged
for
maximum political and media impact. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used
the
operation as the subject of his first news conference since the confirmation
of his
controversial nomination.

The Justice Department, meanwhile, supplied the television networks
government-shot action videotape of Marshals and local cops raiding homes
and breaking down doors. The footage was aired on news programs, accompanied
by
commentary that uncritically parroted the claims made by the department.

The department produced a mind-numbing array of statistics on the raids,
resulting in cookie-cutter articles appearing in local papers and on local
television throughout the country, highlighting the number of arrests made
in each area.