Art Spiegelman resigns from New Yorker to protest

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday February 13, 2003 20:43 by Phuq Hedd

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(Q) For what do you reproach the New Yorker? For marching to the same beat as the New York Times and all the other great American media that don't criticize the government for fear that the administration will take revenge by blocking their access to sources and information. Mass media today is in the hands of a limited group of extremely wealthy owners whose interests don't coincide at all with those of the average soul living in a country (USA) where the gap between rich and poor is now unbridgeable. In this context, all criticism of the administration is automatically branded unpatriotic and un-American. Our media choose to ignore news that in the rest of the world receives wide prominence; if it were not for the Internet, even my view of the world would be extremely limited.

This is why indymedia is so important: "they" can't take the truth away if you are the one making it. I've written to Maus to tell him to forget the NYT and "The Nation" and to start writing and drawing for Indymedia.

Meanwhile, back in Ireland:

Indymedia.ie: Get Involved! Join us Feb 15!
Ha'Penny Bridge Inn (Upstairs)
12noon, 15 February
Temple Bar
South bank of the Liffey
Wellington Quay, Dublin
Coming to the Dublin Anti-War March? Bringing a video camera? a still camera (either film or digital)? recording audio interviews? are you a secret writer wishing for a forum? or perhaps you are a computer geek wanting to use your skills to change the world?

Join our two new IMC-IRL Workgroups:
imc-ireland-video and imc-ireland-photo
Also join our other work-groups and lists:
imc-ireland-editorial / imc-ireland-tech / imc-ireland