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. — —-~F rrr a —— OPEN IETTER TO THE MEDIA ad The press coverage of our OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE yesterday was, with a. single exception, :that of TV and Radio Station KQED, a total distortion of our message, It appeare that it ia necessary to kidnap a wealthy individual in ower to get a fair hearing. The experience of the last’ day has taught us again with sharp new clarity the extent to which the American people are systematically mis-informed day in and day out by the ruling class~owned media. The established media seem to be truth-pmofs they filter every item of news through their own. ideology and 4 mis~ guided sense of "newsworthiness", so that even our message, through selection, omission, and distortion (both intended and by habit), was made to represent us a5 ape efattes anarcho-syndicglists and/or anti-Marxists, and in general as anything but what wep , Wep. are not pacifists, but we are not violentists either, ‘We are not “anarcho~ ayud teal toto" or "anarchists" -- ovr theory originates in Marx (NOT in Lenin, Stalin, M0» etc. }, and in the outbreaks of revolutionary ‘Practice by the proletariat throughout thé: last one-hundred years, such as the Paris Commune of 1871, and the Hungarian revolution of 1956, in.all- of. which forma of workers’ councils were ereate.:, oie a Wf the American and world public is ever, to mow what really happened and why it happened ‘concerning the Foster assassination and the Hearst kidnaping so that they can, judge for themselves instead of receiving pre-digested messages, our original statement will have to be made public, both uncut and with the present addition included, by the following media that distorted it yesterdays he "SP Chronicle — SF Examiner 7 ne A Oakland Tribune a, . as 5 ae er , . 4 . 2 Pa 4 oe “\rrx i KOO "Vy “KPPA Radio | our original decision not to reveal the whereabouts of the SLA, or our own, reniains and will remain, We intend to reveal only WHAT HAPPENED, HOW IT HAPPENED, aie ' | LA EMANCIPACION DE LOS TRABAJANORES SERA LA OBRA DE ELLOS MISMOS! _, '.*THE LIBERATION OF THE WORKERS VILL BE THE TASK OF THE WORKERS THEMSELVES - (AND OF NO PARTY OR OTHER AGENCY IN THEIR NAME) - February 22, 1974 ~ ore can nee a a ne oe nee TOR STELIOS, CHEW EES EAM gO WE