Futurist Pleads with Media for Balance

Business futurist John Renesch asks the media to do enterprising stories on the conflict within million of patriotic Americans who are again the war in Iraq.

John Renesch, business futurist and author of Getting to the Better Future, sent the following message to hundreds of journalists yesterday, in the hope of seeing more stories on the inner conflict being felt by millions of patriotic Amercians who disagree with the decision to unilaterally attach Iraq:

Pardon the "blast" nature of this plea but I feel my country is going mad. While there were growing percentages of us against initiating this war with Iraq there now seems to be collective push for a "coming together" so we can demonstrate support for our troops.

Isn't there someone among the media who can tell the story of the conflicted American citizen who loves his/her country, yet feels this war is wrong for many reasons and will branded "unpatriotic" unless they stop protesting and remain silent while our nation goes against the opinion of the rest of the world and unilaterally starts playing God?

There are millions of us who are wondering what happened to our wonderful country but the media seems fixated on the left versus right argument instead of what is truly American.

PLEASE write stories about this. PLEASE do interviews about this. PLEASE cover this aspect of the human experience - being a patriotic American but against the doctrine of imperialism we have initiated. PLEASE be enterprising and do stories other than what everyone else is doing. PLEASE tell the human story, not just report what is being sent out by the military and the government. PLEASE tell the story of people who feel so torn right now....a very sad time in our nation's history.

Thanks for "listening."

Regards,

John Renesch