=============================================== The following is a copy of a letter I sent of to the VOA regarding this blatant piece of propaganda. Anyone wishing to voice their views to the VOA can do so at the following addresses. VOA Today voatoday@voa.gov Genl Letters letters-usa@voa.gov Ombudsman ombudsman@voa.gov Dear Sirs, Regarding your program of this date concerning the militia movement in the United States. After having read the "accuracy and Balance" and "fairness" portions of your Journalistic code, I am forced to conclude that the so-called code is a farce and an illusion with which you hope to hoodwink the public. Your show on the militia movement could in no way be thought of as either "accurate or balanced" nor was it in any way "fair." You8 had three guests on the show - all of whom were staunchly anti-militia, including one, Mark Pitcavage, who has turned his anti-militia feelings into a virtual crusade. No one either sympathetic to the militias point of view, nor from a militia was on your show. You call that fair ? I do not. This show was not journalism sirs, it was advocacy pure and simple. Truly a sad example of what our tax money is being wasted on. The patriot movement and the militia movement is growing in this country in part because of the biased reporting of the main stream media. People within the movement see how they are characterized, and know that those doing the characterization are pursuing their own political agenda. You could not have found someone in support of the militias - I think not, for I listen to a number of shortwave radio hosts who are pro militia on a daily basis. Its not that you couldn't find them, its that you didn't look. With Sadness Mike Pietrantoni ---------------------- Original Message ---------------------- [196 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=1655384&hilit=CONSPIRACY+MEDIA> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&1757120 Score: 80 Subject: Mark Pisscabbage rears his ugly head (again!)