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To: long-gone who wrote (6336)	9/13/2002 6:19:54 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 89467

Well, the media does it's best to manipulate reality, regardless of the facts. That isn't the first time VH1 has manipulated reality to push their agenda. Their bogus 100 best Rock 'n Roll shows (albumns, performers, etc.) do not reflect reality or what most Americans would have expected to see...... based on VH1's ads for the shows & their claims on how they established those lists....... but it isn't worth the effort to expose what the underlying agenda might have been..... it would only serve to polarize folks..... regardless of the facts. What ever happened to presenting news in an unbiased format? Why do many of these organizations limit the story to reflect the positions/opinions they wish to support, while allowing, at best, lip service to an opposing view or facts that conflict with their POV? I watched a mediocre movie the other day..... Newsies..... it actually shows precisely how some of the Icons of news outlets used & abused the power that they had in manipulating/forming public opinion. It's worth watching if only to get an understanding of how powerful the media can be in creating public opinion, censoring certain newsworthy stories/issues & manipulating the masses with half truths, one sided stories & outright lies. NEWSIES The musical Newsies was inspired by articles in the New York Times covering the historical newsboys' strike of 1899. The Strike of 1899 On July 18, 1899, the tensions between the ruthless newspaper magnates and their "distribution apparatus" of newsboys--over the ten-cent price hike begun late the previous year--flared into action with a small riot against a delivery wagon in Queens. The next day, the newsboys of New York City got together and decided to go on strike against the big publishers, setting off two and a half weeks of chaos, fun, and trouble. Shutting down circulation throughout New York City and from Philadelphia to Cincinatti to Boston, the newsboys were both full of fun and deadly serious. As Kid Blink, one of their leaders, put it, "Ain't ten cents worth as much to us as it is to Pulitzer and Hearst who are millionaires? Well, I guess it is. If they can't spare it, how can we?" Despite a bribery scandal that rocked the fledgling union, the newsies persevered, till finally the newspapers offered to refund any unsold paper to make up for the price hike. The newsies accepted this, and everything went back to normal. Or did it? In 1914 the world erupted in war. Every major newspaper in the United States raised their distribution prices to capitalize on the action--but New York's took longer than the others. They had to make sure 1899 didn't happen again. Coverage of the Strike from 1899 Screenwriters Bob Tzudiker and Noni White were inspired to write the original screenplay for Newsies after stumbling over these articles, the coverage of the 1899 strike by the New York Times. homepage.mac.com