{"content":[{"text":"people, families, women \n bombings or invasions.”","bbox":{"left":0.159622,"top":0.050075,"width":0.22199,"height":0.030253999999999996}},{"text":"or","bbox":{"left":0.394098,"top":0.050075,"width":0.017380000000000007,"height":0.015554999999999992}},{"text":"children","bbox":{"left":0.423977,"top":0.050075,"width":0.068608,"height":0.015554999999999992}},{"text":"who","bbox":{"left":0.505071,"top":0.050075,"width":0.03508100000000003,"height":0.015554999999999992}},{"text":"suﬀer","bbox":{"left":0.552639,"top":0.050075,"width":0.04880799999999996,"height":0.015554999999999992}},{"text":"the","bbox":{"left":0.613946,"top":0.050075,"width":0.027908000000000044,"height":0.015554999999999992}},{"text":"consequences","bbox":{"left":0.654352,"top":0.050075,"width":0.12134400000000001,"height":0.015554999999999992}},{"text":"of","bbox":{"left":0.788192,"top":0.050075,"width":0.016374,"height":0.015554999999999992}},{"text":"US","bbox":{"left":0.817051,"top":0.050075,"width":0.02325100000000002,"height":0.015554999999999992}},{"text":"With the dominant media avoiding these responsibilities, one of the many roles the WUO \n played was, according to Dohrn, to communicate to the public the ways in which people, \n cultures and whole civilizations were suﬀering under US air strikes and CIA repression.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.10847,"width":0.7941,"height":0.051189}},{"text":"“The media was plenty corporatized during the ’60s and ’70s, and it was the \n anti-war movement in concert with the Black Freedom Movement and the \n returning vets who changed the hearts and minds of the US people from \n 1965-1968,” she said.","bbox":{"left":0.159622,"top":0.187801,"width":0.6807409999999999,"height":0.05965199999999998}},{"text":"WUO member David Gilbert told Truthout he believes it was the strength of the anti-war \n movement, and the US losses in Vietnam, that ﬁnally pushed sectors of the media to start \n reporting some of the truth about the war.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.275594,"width":0.7940740000000001,"height":0.051188999999999985}},{"text":"He echoes Dohrn’s point that the media was already corporatized back then (though the \n conglomerates were not nearly as large as they are today), and the pro-war bias of the \n media was just as real as it is now.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.344011,"width":0.7941400000000001,"height":0.051188999999999985}},{"text":"“An example was the use of napalm bombs, designed to cling to and burn \n through ﬂesh, on civilians,” Gilbert said. “The mainstream media completely \n whited-out these horrible war crimes.”","bbox":{"left":0.159622,"top":0.423342,"width":0.680754,"height":0.044952999999999965}},{"text":"In fact, in January 1967 a radical magazine, Ramparts, published a series of color photos of \n children and babies burned by napalm.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.496436,"width":0.794182,"height":0.03337199999999996}},{"text":"“That’s the point when some of us became absolutely frantic to stop the war,” \n Gilbert said. “But it also exposed the mainstream media for what they were \n covering up.”","bbox":{"left":0.159622,"top":0.55795,"width":0.6807249999999999,"height":0.04495300000000002}},{"text":"According to Gilbert, by 1967 a whole network of small radical papers had a combined \n readership of roughly 6 million, making up a crucial wing of the movement. Of course, it was \n therefore ripe for targeting by intelligence agencies.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.631044,"width":0.7941270000000001,"height":0.05118899999999993}},{"text":"“An important part of the FBI and police oﬀensive to beat the radical \n movements was to destroy the radical media, a campaign that’s detailed in \n Geoﬀrey Rips’s UnAmerican Activities,” he said.","bbox":{"left":0.159622,"top":0.710375,"width":0.6806359999999999,"height":0.04495300000000002}},{"text":"By the late ’60s, largely due to constant pressure from the increasingly powerful anti-war \n movement, portions of the media started to come around to presenting some of the realities \n of the Vietnam War. Plus, by then, it was clear the US was likely going to lose the war, US \n brutality abroad was being exposed to the world, and the political upheaval on the home \n front was becoming white hot.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.783469,"width":0.794063,"height":0.08682299999999998}},{"text":"Gilbert went on to explain how, then as now,","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.88752,"width":0.38170899999999996,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"“The hawks waged a concerted campaign to blame that on ‘the liberal media,’","bbox":{"left":0.159622,"top":0.931217,"width":0.68065,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"| 2","bbox":{"left":0.905167,"top":0.951943,"width":0.02340999999999993,"height":0.01659200000000005}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}