[Media-watch] Special from coldtype.net

[Tony Sutton]

New at coldtype.net: May 30

SILENCING DISSENT 
A journalist's nightmare on commencement day

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges
made headlines after being booed from the stage as he tried to deliver an
anti-war commencement day speech at Rockford College in Illinois on May 20.
According to one report, "his microphone was unplugged within three minutes.
Voices of protest and the sound of foghorns grew. Some graduates and
audience members turned their backs to the speaker in silent protest. Others
rushed up the aisle to vocally protest the remarks, and one student tossed
his cap and gown to the stage before leaving.²
What did Hedges say (or, rather, try to say) that was so inflamatory?
ColdType's special 14-page report reprints Hedge's speech, together with the
transcript of a radio interview with Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman and an
introduction by Danny Schechter, editor of Mediachannel.org.

Find our 14-page special report at at http://www.coldtype.net/freedom.html



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