Henry Norr is a long time technology journalist who I have been happily reading for many years in Mac magazine, on Macintouch and occasionally on the SF Chronicle. That was until March through April, when Henry was dismissed for taking a day to go on an anti war protest. Google search for henry norr contains lots of different articles on his dismissal and reactions to it.
There is a support site for him, which has been setup by volunteers. The support site has a series of articles on what has happened in the case and some of the current proceedings. He was also part of a call to action from MoveOn.org, a US based citizens democracy organisation with over 2 million members which seeks to return some control to the people of America, rather than the current vested interests.
Today he emailed me and a thousand others who contacted him, I blogged about it a while back. Henry and others have organised a day off protest around the 4th of July. The plan is to boycott the mainstream media, the protest is focussed around the SF Chronicle, but people can participate world wide, by using independent media sources rather than the mainstream often advertiser swayed sources.
Click Read More to read the exended article and read the call to action.
CELEBRATE JULY 4TH BY DECLARING INDEPENDENCE FROM THE CORPORATE MEDIA!
Fed up with the mainstream media's lies, omissions and distortions? It's time to send them a message: we're not taking it anymore. During Independence Day week - June 30-July 6, 2003 - join with thousands of others in the SF Bay Area and across the country and put your daily newspaper subscription on hold, turn off your TV, and act to support independent media!
THE SF CHRONICLE NEEDS A TIME OUT!
The San Francisco Chronicle is letting Bay Area readers down, and it's time for us to fight back:
*In April the paper fired popular technology columnist Henry Norr simply because he joined with thousands of others and got arrested in the March 20 protests against the U.S. government's illegal and immoral attack on Iraq. At the same time the Chronicle abandoned its previous wishy-washy approach to the war and jumped on the Bush bandwagon, glorifying the efforts of the U.S. military with huge headlines, photos and stories from reporters "embedded" with the troops and downplaying the suffering of Iraqi civilians caused by the bombing and subsequent disorder.
*The paper shamefully neglected the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming vote on media "deregulation," until the grassroots movement grew too big to ignore - and until the Bay Guardian caught Phil Bronstein in an outright lie about the Chron's coverage of the issue. It's not hard to see why the Chron tried to bury the issue: the Hearst Corporation, the paper's owner, is one of the media behemoths counting on the FCC to clear away the last remaining obstacles to total corporate control of the U.S. media.
*We get only slanted and sensationalized reports from Israel and Palestine
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