Okay, some ideas on a one-day picket of CNN [View All]

[Neecy]

I've been thinking about this since Shance posted earlier about a massive one-month protest of CNN...but since that would be almost impossible to put together, what about a one-day leafletting campaign at their headquarters and bureaus?

Here are some ideas I had - feel free to add more.

1. Target Atlanta HQ and the New York, DC, LA and Chicago bureaus.

2. Have a small group - perhaps 15 in Atlanta, 10 in each bureau - hand out leaflets for the day. I can write some up and have them in .pdf format for printing. We can hit on the psy-ops personnel CNN allowed in their newsroom, tie it in with their refusal to adequately cover the anti-war point of view in their telecasts, plus the role their lucrative advertising contracts with Boeing and Lockheed-Martin might play in their support for the war and refusing to air opposing viewpoints. I can do some research and pinpoint exactly how AOL/TW has benefitted as a corporation from the Bush administration.

3. Each group will have a local coordinator to work out times and meeting places, plus a local media coordinator. My thought is to really embarrass CNN and send out a press release of the protest to local network affiliates, newspapers and independent media. I get the feeling that someone such as the local CBS news affiliate might enjoy grinding on CNN a bit. Since it's a national one-day campaign, it might garner more attention.

4. Perhaps we can get some "CNN LIES" shirts printed - it would have a nice impact.

5. Maybe target April 1st - a symbolic day, if we can put it together that quickly.

We have to be careful that the leaflets are completely factual - or at least raise valid questions - or CNN could come after us for defaming them as McDonalds did some years back with a similar flyer campaign. I don't think this would be too difficult.

What do you think? Perhaps we can get some blogs to promote it, because the more who participate on that day, the better. We all complain about CNN but our letters and calls are totally ignored. I view this more as an anti-war action than a corporate media event, but we could probably make it anything we wish, as CNN is guilty of so many things. At least it would dispel the false notion that CNN is 'liberal'.