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Vote and Demand Better Media Coverage
Posted on September 20, 2004
Gabriel London, Director of last year's Criminal Justice Award Winner, No Escape, Prison Rape has been busy...
Hi. I wanted to let you know that if you tune your TV to MTV this Tuesday night at 10:30 you'll see the premiere of a documentary film that I produced and that Drew Barrymore directed, called "The Best Place to Start." It's a roadtrip documentary about voting that follows Drew's journey to find out what the deal is on voting, why it's important and why more young people haven't been exercising that right. It'd be great if you could tune in or TIVO it, and if not it's playing through election weekend on MTV, though I don't know the times. Hopefully we've played our parts to make the election of 2004 that much more interesting and involving.
"The Best Place to Start"
MTV 9-21-04 @ 10:30pm
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For those of you who are registered to vote, you may find that it is difficult to know where the candidates stand on the issues that are most important to you. Unfortunately, big media isn't making it easier. But you can take action...
From Media for Democracy:
Return the Media to Message
With less than 50 days before the November 2 elections the major networks are still treating the American public to a steady diet of campaign mudslinging and character assassination, leaving very little airtime for substantive coverage of the issues Americans say they care about most.
But there is still time to bring the issues before the camera.
With the upcoming presidential debates the major networks have an important opportunity to return America's attention to a meaningful discussion of real issues. Three presidential debates have been proposed but network executives are still weighing whether to show up at all. And their track record isn't encouraging. In 2000, Fox skipped the first of the presidential debates, opting to premiere "Dark Angel." That same year, NBC gave local stations the choice to air the baseball playoffs instead of the debates.
Let's not see a repeat in 2004 of the mistakes of 2000.
Please sign our petition calling on the major network executives to agree to provide comprehensive coverage of the upcoming debates.
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