<strong>Written By:</strong> 4Canada
<strong>Date:</strong> 2007-09-14 09:56:42
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Says Juarez, "There's no moral weight given to the arguments. That's why controlling the medium of the message is so important. We can't rely on larger media organizations to communicate our arguments."

Juarez and his partner, Diane Bedard, launched MCSO in recent weeks with a website and an e-mail address ([email protected]). It is aimed at "those unsatisfied by government policy and the bias of uncritical corporate media." But here's the twist: the organization is for current and former members of the military and their families. People like Juarez and Bedard.

Buffered from reality

They modelled the organization on the 3,000-plus member American group, Military Families Speak Out. Both groups are, says Juarez, "Places for people to share their stories, really, outside the military framework." Often, he says, military families get caught in the armed forces' and governments' efforts to control the message and end up feeling silenced. It's empowering, he says, to learn you're not alone. "To unite those voices is absolutely important."

<a href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/09/14/DeadSoldiers/">http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/09/14/DeadSoldiers/</a>

   

It would be interesting to find out just who the naked bike rider was, and if he's on the Victoria police force.

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It shouldn't matter who he was...naked motorcycle protest is likely as
legitimate as any other kind, The problem isn't with the protest, it's with the
coverage of it. I'm pretty sure there were a fair number of well-spoken,
relatively clean-cut people there...the kind that anybody would wlecome into
their homes for any number of reasons. Instead the press chose to
concentrate on the naked biker.

Could the cops have planted that guy? Sure, but not if the press was willing
to deal with the issue instead of concentrating on naked biker guys. For that
matter, the naked biker guy might have been fully up on the issue and quite
eloquent, but the press would never present that or, if they did, they'd
present him as a freak for being educated and eloquent..."We certainly didn't
expect this caveman to be able to speak English...."

   

"It would be interesting to find out just who the naked bike rider was, and if he's on the Victoria police force."

... or working for the press, or for that matter working for both the press and the police.

What a racket.