CBS News: A look at the peace movement circa 1970

[hadrons]

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A look at the peace movement circa 1970 ... some of the ideas being proposed sounds a little like Howard Dean's 50 state strategy

[suede1]

1. The country sure has changed in 39 years. For the better concerning race and for the worse

concerning the media.

[underpants]

4. A full 7 minute news report

90 seconds is the normal top cover of any one thing, aside from the "In Depth" segments usually dealing with healtcare after the second commercial.

Notice too that in this report (success, popularity, money raising) is basically treated as a liability-and now the more flashing the more "look how successful *I* am" is the main focus of infomercials, politicians, and was what Colbert was parodying with the title of his book.

[Emillereid]

2. We were certainly not finished with large scale operations. In May, 1971

we organized a brilliant campaign. We said if the government won't shut down the war, we'll shut down the government. Brigades of 10 -15 people systematically blocked major avenues into the city and the traffic circles. As the police arrested one group another group took their place. The first brigade to sit down and block traffic on the 14th Street bridge included Dr. Benjamin Spock. There were so many arrests, we filled the RFK stadium. After that real change began to take place in the Congress. We finally scared them.

[suzanner]

3. yes yes yes yes...

That was back when news was is the public interest and NOT controlled by the corp-industrial-military complex and/or self-interest and ego. Note the confidence- when you know you are performing to the best humanly possible and telling the truth, following the values and principles of high standard leadership, confidence in your product shows. How different from Mike snarky-Wallace and the rest. By comparison, today's news is all cheap, inferior infotainment. Like pro-wrestling theater as compared to actual real sports. Everything will go that way if we don't stop it.