Media distortion of movements for social justice and violence?

[waswisgirl1]

The US Freedom of Information Act has opened up documents proving that the FBI has spied on and/or infiltrated all sorts of social movement groups, like anti-racist, environmental, feminist, labor, and peace groups, since they assume that any group not toeing the line with the government powers must be subversive, and therefore, violent! I don't recall conservative groups being targeted, like groups working against choice, even though some anti-choice groups are some of the most violent in the country, like the Army of God, which has many members in prison for bombings, arson, assault, and murder (of health clinics and their staff).

The US media is only too willing to make social movement groups look like a bunch of kooks, when they bother to report on them at all. If you do some research on the media monopolies in the US, even though the majority of journalists may be liberal leaning (based on past surveys, don't know if that's still true), it doesn't matter, since the majority of the US media outlets (tv, cable, radio, magazines, newspapers, books, web sites) are owned by a very few extremely conservative people that also give millions to Republicans and conservative groups in the US. Ted Turner is one of the few exceptions, to a very conservative, right-wing group of US media owners.

I know many people think the US media is liberal, but I think radio is primarily right-wing; cable and the net is all across the board; tv is not conservative or liberal, mainly boring or insipid; magazines and books run the gamut; newspapers report about the same hyped up news, only the editorials are liberal or conservative, and the majority of editorials are conservative or moderate, not too many liberal commentators around today. Tv news is a joke, it might as well be a grocery magazine it's so bad. Even there, the tv pundits are usually conservative with a few "moderates" (really luke-warm conservatives) mixed in. Jon Stewart is a comic and is probably the only liberal who says the word "news" on tv. How ironic.

Edit:
New Documents Show FBI Targeting Environmental and Animal Rights Groups Activities as ‘Domestic Terrorism’ (12/20/2005) Additional Documents Indicate FBI Scrutiny of Anti-war Gathering:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/2312...51220.html

Who Owns the Media?
http://www.freepress.net/content/ownership