Sacramento Coalition to End the War

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007
Contact: Cres Vellucci 916/996-9170

ATTN: Daybook/Assignment Desk

FOX NEWS targeted by pickets nationally,
including Fox 40 News in Sacramento,
for ‘Tell the Truth' campaign

SACRAMENTO – Fox News Network affiliates – in Sacramento and across the
nation – have been targeted by demonstrators this Wednesday as part of a
national effort to pressure the national news operation to "Tell the Truth."

Protestors will hold a news conference, and then confront executives at the
FOX NEWS NETWORK Sacramento affiliate Fox 40 studio WEDNESDAY, at 10 a.m.
at 4655 Fruitridge Road.

Similar protests will be taking place at Fox News Network affiliates
nationwide.

Despite claims it is "fair and balanced," numerous studies have shown that
Fox News Network is not telling the truth to the American public about the
war in Iraq, according to Democracy For America, which is sponsoring the
demonstrations.

"America needs the truth about what's happening in Iraq. It's time to
demand the truth, instead of faulty White House reporting with
cherry-picked facts. It's time to ‘Tell the Truth,'" said DFA, noting that
Republicans will exploit the memory of Sept. 11 to support their failing
war of choice.

Fox News is especially callous – and misleading – in its reporting of U.S.
deaths in Iraq, according to independent studies conducted by Fairness &
Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).

Brit Hume, for instance, on his FOX show in late 2005, characterized 2,000
U.S. military deaths as "negligible," and compared them to higher rates in
some other U.S. wars. However, if he had compared to every U.S. military
"intervention" the past 30 years, including the 1991 Gulf War, none come
close to even 1,000 deaths - making the Iraq war much more deadly.

And, when 18 U.S. deaths occurred in one day, Hume said they were "quite
low." He later said U.S. soldiers statistically had less of a chance of
dying from all causes in Iraq than those murdered in California. But, there
are many more Californians than U.S. troops in Iraq, and if Californians
were killed at the same rate as U.S. troops, there would be more than 400
murders per day – not six, according to FAIR.

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