When President Bush visited Portland Oregon in 2003 there were protests. This video shows one incident as it was reported on the local news and then shows the same incident from different angles taken by protesters with camcorders. The difference is significant.
9 minutes. Link to Video
This is the best part of a 20 minute film called Fuck the Corporate Media. The original was uploaded to Portland Independant Media, an open publishing network.
Like all IMCs, Portland Indymedia hosts a website with an open publishing newswire to which anyone can post text, images, audio and video using the online publish form. Unlike a newspaper or other form of media, content uploaded to the website using this form is published directly to the newswire without being approved or edited. The articles that are featured in the center column are taken right from the newswire, thus highlighting original content and reporting. This system empowers anyone to become the media for the purpose of sharing information and views that are blocked out or misrepresented by the corporate media; that is, to stand with the oppressed against the oppressors.
There are Indymedia sites all over the world. See the list in the sidebar of Portland’s site.
