Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:16:31 +0200
Subject: Re: AUT: If the "anti-globalization" movement radicalizes...


I think people do not really understand the media
and the media workers.

In Israel, which is not an "enlightened" capitalist country,
the  mainstream media reports about the anti Zionists and the
anarchoid "anti-globalization" activists out of proportion to
our numbers and activities.

For an instance, there was a local conferece kind of WEF.
About 5 hundred peaceful demonstration of the less radicals
did one thing, and 30 people of us chained tried to block
the entrance to the conference. The media barely mentioned them, but gave
our activity live cover in the main prime time news program of public TV - including my
complain about police brutality. (I was really photogenic and natural
as I did not know I was live in the news. ;)))))

Next few days and the private sector reported a lot about our acusations
of the system. One of our activists was even got a 30 minutes interview
about anarchism in prime time on the educational TV.

In the capitalist system the media is both political mean, but also a
merchandise that need excitement for its sales. Also the media workers
are mostly wage slaves - even if many of them are regarded and treated
as professionals. (Many years, even the less sympathetic ones, to justify
their claim for space in the media band, reporting of numbers and activities
is exaggerated way....)


> If the "anti-globalization" movement radicalizes...
> >...will this mean that the mainstream media will
> >ignore it completely?
>
> short answer: who cares
> longer answer: no, not if something like Genoa or Quebec City happens again.

Short answer: they serve us by reporting our activities and bringing our
opinions - even in short to the masses.

Long answer: no, not if we will supply appropriate information by acting
in a creative ways.

It just remind me how I got nearly weekly coverage in the main daily newspapers
when the commune I lived in tried to expel me without compensations, for
anti Zionist activity. It was just a year from 1967 war, and anti Zionist activity
of Jews was really rare - thus a worthy news item.




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