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KC Media Watch Alert #21 - The Downing Street Memo and the Kansas City Star

 

Friends,
 
     The so-called Downing Street or Smoking Gun Memo (see www.afterdowningstreet.org for full story), was leaked to the British press in early May. It was roughly a month later that it trickled into the American press. While the Kansas City Star did print Mollie Ivins' column on this, and coverage of the Conyers hearing did make page A2, the Star has never published the actual memo, nor the subsequent legal background memo which was leaked (http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/fcolegal020308.pdf) nor the David Manning Memo (http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/manning020314.pdf). As a result, Kansas Citians who depend on the Star as their main source of news have thus far been insulated from these documents and their weighty implications.
 
     It is up to us to help steer the Star and the rest of the media in the right direction. We have a few courses of action for you to follow:

ACTION -

 

  1. Contact Derek Donovan, Kansas City Star Readers' Representative, by either calling him at 816 234 4487 between 8:30 and noon weekdays or emailing him at readerrep@kcstar.com, and tell him that you would like your fellow Kansas City Star readers to have access to the memo.  If you email him, please bcc kcmediawatch@yahoo.com.  As always please be polite and respectful.

  2. Come to the Citizens for Media Reform Weekly Turnup! Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 12:00 Noon Northeast corner of 18th and Grand (The Kansas City Star Office Building). The KC Star has been somewhat lacking in its reporting on the issues raised by the Downing Street Memos and the growing outcry from members of Congress and American citizens for the administration to address the discrepancies between their statements and the information revealed in the memos. 
        This purpose of this event is to urge the Star to fully inform the Kansas City community of what we believe to be a pressing national issue. A strong turnout will send a strong message.

  3. And if you have not yet submitted the MEDIA ACTION PAGE on the Downing Street minutes, our one click form now also sends your personal message to the Ombudsmen for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and 7 of the most important TV network news programs.  They still are not giving this scandal the coverage it warrants so let's all demand it. http://www.usalone.com/downingstreet.htm

     

Thanks as always for all you do in pursuit of truth and peace,

Mike Murphy

Kansas City Iraq Task Force Media Watch