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Amaryllis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 11:20 PM
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Conyers Looks for News in the Wrong Place (very unusual article for MSM)
Not directly related to election reform, except that it offers an explanation of why nothing of substance is covered by the media, and consequently why it's so hard to get coverage on election fraud. This is not something you'd expect to find in MSM. Well worth reading.

Conyers Looks for News in the Wrong Place
by Sylvester Brown Jr.
Published on Sunday, May 15, 2005 by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch / Missouri

Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, is peeved. He can't understand why an explosive story published early this month in England hasn't received more attention here.

On May 1, The Sunday Times of London reported the British government and the United States government secretly conspired to attack Iraq in 2002 - a year before the war started. In one meeting, an official suggested Britain and America "create" conditions to justify the war, the Times reported.

Conyers and 88 fellow congressional members sent a letter to President George W. Bush on May 5 asking about the "troubling allegations." They asked Bush several questions, including whether there was a "coordinated effort to fix intelligence" to justify the invasion.

In the letter sent to colleagues for their support, Conyers took a potshot at the media.
"Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the United States was too busy ... to cover a bombshell report out of the British newspapers," Conyers wrote. "This should not be allowed to fall down the memory hole during wall-to-wall coverage of the Michael Jackson trial and a runaway bride."


More:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/sylvesterbrownjr/story/B0259EF0FBA1541986257001001ED2DF?OpenDocument
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 11:49 PM
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1. Great article.
Misleading titles can be very effective in drawing in the reader, particularly those at whom the article is targetting: the apathetic & misdirected media.

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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 11:50 PM
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2. Sounds to me like he's rubbing the Corp. Press'
face in shit.....
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Liberty Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 11:54 PM
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3. E-mail this to all the MSM and challenge them to prove Brown wrong.
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