Imagine Peace

It's easy if you try.

More than 30 years ago, John Lennon and Yoko Ono took out newspaper ads at their own expense to promote peace. Does your newsapaper promote peace? Are their headlines and pictures promoting violence and aggression, or peace, love, compassion and understanding? Try SNOOPY'S MEDIA LOVE TEST (MLT): Circle the number of words in the headlines of the main section that connote fear, anger, violence, hatred, war. Compare that with the number of words that promote peace, love, compassion and understanding.

Does your paper pass the Media Love Test?
If not, write a letter to the editor or take out an ad to promote peace. Even better, CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION until they change their editorial policies to promote peace. The only thing capitalists understand is money. Stop encouraging violence.
IMAGINE PEACE.

Heres a link to buzzmachine, describing a typical day in the life of the NY Times:

The Snuff Times

I found myself shocked by the number of dead people pictured in today's New York Times.

Page A1: A photo of a man carrying a dead child the age of my own child.
Page A10: A photo of a dozen corpses of people killed in Gaza, shrouded with their faces staring out.
Page A13: A photo of Iraqi men carrying the bodies of the dead from "an attack by American forces" off a truck.
Page E 3: A photo of a dead Confederate soldier under the infamous photo of the leashed prisoner at Abu Ghraib.

In my time as an editor, we thought long and hard before putting a picture of a corpse in the newspaper -- not so much to protect the audience from an indelicate image but to respect the dead and not to exploit their image.