Media

According to most polls, about 50% of Americans continue to look favorably upon President Bush. For heaven’s sake, why?? For the answer, read on.

Ideas on how to improve readership and interest in publishing on Independent Media Center. Why the right to right as a citizen is important. Opportunities to write more opinion than the scrawny Letters to the Editors that are hacked up to a few sentences is a way to go. Can’t main stream media practice democracy?

"Let's face it, folks, we live in a society where sometimes the truth has to be shaded, denied, covered up, in order to protect people's feelings, in order to just keep things on a even keel." -- Rush Limbaugh, May 10, 2004

While the shutter captured the gruesome horror in graphic detail, it missed capturing the full scope of the incident, as did CBS. This was not an isolated incident. It was not the result of a few rogues. Rather this incident was the result of careful long-term planning. In fact Bush and every other high official of this administration approved of the torture and we have their own words on that

Challenging Boundaries: A Video Sampler....
An eclectic collection of independently produced videos.
Subjets include: Witness; AIDS in Africa, The April 25th, 2004 March for Women's Lives, The Nov. 2003 FTAA protests in Miami, and more.

Sunday, May 16th, 3-5pm
Public Market, All Purpose Room
280 North Union Street, Rochester

www.allpurposeroom.org

Every Weds. eve on cable channel 15 in the city of Rochester our NEW weekly show; Rochester Indymedia presents... airs.
This week you will see a new opening (work in progress) to our show and the December 2003 Newsreal. this is a compilation of various IMC video media activists addressing a variety of issues around social change.
look for Rochesters Ragging Grannies, as they demonstrated and performed in Buffalo NY. filmed by Snowshoe productions.

Thursday, 13 May 2004
TV DINNER SHOW
(Rochester IMC)
Time: 08:30 PM View details...
This weeks TV dinner show (Channel 15 Thursday eve.

One Year After Bush Declares An “End to Major Combat,” War Continues, Intensifies Military Families and Veterans Say “Bring Them Home Now!”

11:The Walt Disney Corporation has refused to distribute Michael Moore's
new file "Fahrenheit 911" through it's Miramax subsidary, allegedly
because they fear Jeb Bush will punish the company, which has major
operations in the state of Florida.

A UK Band are determined to BUCK the SYSTEM on behalf of Quality Music, Film and TV

Rochester Indymedia has a new half-hour public access tv program beginning Wednesday, May 5th, at 7:30 p.m. on Rochester Community Television (RCTV) cable channel 15.

This week's show is a compilation of local and national media activists producing video that promotes social change. For this new show we are planning on doing a variety of REAL reality tv shows around social issues in our community. If you want to pitch ideas for our show, you are invited to call them in. And we are always looking for more people to help produce our shows, so get in touch with us if you're interested.