Much as I detest the Scent-Anal, as I've jovially termed it in the past, I'd encourage protest planners to list a summary of recent Sentinel lies and misinformation to educate the unwary.

I support this protest.

They just cant handle the truth and are scared of it.

Oh sorry I meant the protestors not the media

The protestors just wanna gripe about somthing and they dont know anyting close to the truth. Have they been there, have they seen what goes on in Iraq. I have and let me tell you great things are happening there.

anyone have any good corporate swine style pics relating to The Sentinel?

They're only great for sick fucks who want to justify getting paid for terrorizing people in their own country and setting up a police state. any soldier operating in a foreign land IS BY DEFINITION A TERRORIST.

LOL very funny look up the definiton of terrorist. You will see that ALF and ELF fit the definition. An soldiers are not terrorists no matter were our goverment sends us. We do great things but you would have to leave Santa Cruz too see that.

"Have they been there, have they seen what goes on in Iraq. I have and let me tell you great things are happening there."

Now this guy has been seriously reading the Scent-anal if this is what he believes. What's truly sad s/he won't even identify themselves prefering to hide in anoniminity where its easy to make bogus BS claims about how well this illegal war and occupation is going. Maybe if you really even exist and you're not just another troll out to spread misinformation on our media center you'll have the guts to show up Friday and argue your case in person. Defend the Scent-anal if you think its such a great paper because obviously a lot of us don't think its doing such a great job, or any of the other media for that matter.

STOP THE LIES!
SHOW THE TRUTH!
TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DIED AS A RESULT OF THIS UNJUST AND ILLEGAL IMPERIALIST OCCUPATION!

Just read between the lines,
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Have the supporting groups for this protest prepared some examples of Sentinel misreporting? If so, can they post them on this website? I'll try to provide some anti-homeless stuff (though much of it is by omission).

The paper has the nerve to call itself the SANTA CRUZ Sentinel, yet the local coverage is very bias to serve those with the most money and power.

June 13 was the first day of the Coalition of University Employees (CUE) stike against the University of California. This is a very important stike for all of SANTA CRUZ, yet coverage of the strike did not even make it to the front page of the "Santa Cruz" Sentinel. Instead, the Sentinel's headline was, "City takes aim at rowdy, off-campus parties." And, to be sure to mimic U$A Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury, and everyother corporte media outlet.... the "Santa Cruz" Sentinel had a front page article called, "What now for Jackson?."


I don't remember where i heard this..... but...

We live in a world where news passes as entertainment and entertainment passes as news.


UC Clericals Stage Three Day Strike
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Corporate media is a disease, Indymedia is a cure.

The last time a protest like this was organized in front of the Sentinel, was to protest their biased reporting about Mumia Abu-Jamal. They often referred to Mumia as a cop killer. Durring the protest, the Editor Tom Honig came out and spoke to us. That occurred in part because we had previously asked him to meet with us. Later, I managed to publish an op-ed asking that Mumia be set free, in part based on the new evidence that Arnold Beverly was the person who shot Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. That op-ed ran opposite a cartoon that lampooned Santa Cruz activists who were supporting Mumia. I guess they just couldn't come up with more than a few sentences to justify their position. Given enough time and enough words, the "fry Mumia" camp can be shown to be missing major pieces of the puzzle.

As a working stiff (9-5) I'll be there in Spirit!!!!
Yeah it's about time the Screw-us-all got it's come uppance!!!!

we chose the Sentinel offices for the rally site because they are our local media, and because their coverage and editorial bias have been quite dismal! - BUT, this event is directed to all the major media and their failure to show us and tell us the truth!!

perhaps we will march to the corner of Pacific and Lincoln Avenues as well, where the SJ Mercury News has its local office!

The protest went well, with about 25 people in attendance. One of the TV reporters showed up as well as some newspaper reporters and other media. One of the main points that was made was that the media has refrained from publishing some of the gorier pictures of people maimed in Iraq. One of the workers at the Sentinel pointed out that people have actually cancelled their subscriptions when some of those very pictures were published on the front page, such as the contractors who were burned and hung from a bridge.

Anticipating the other literature that the protesters were handing out about how the US media has under-reported the story about the Downing Street Memos, Friday's (June 17th) Sentinel had an article on page A-9 about the Downing Street Memos and the resulting fallout in the US Congress. The significance of the Downing Street Memos was first reported by the London Times on 5/1/05. The doccuments outline the fact that the Bush administration had intended to attack Iraq much earlier than previously proved, and that Bush distorted intelligence about Iraq to fit his War agenda. Congress-people are now organizing into coalitions to call for the US to get out of Iraq. For more info, check out:

www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051205A.shtml

www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061605D.shtml

(Norman Solomon on Iran) www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061705K.shtml

and

www.fair.org

USA today had a front page headline a few days ago proclaiming that 59% of the people in the US want some form of troop withdrawl from Iraq.

any pics of the rally?