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>Message-ID: <33267EB6.1BEB@echonyc.com> >Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 02:00:22 -0800 >From: Paul DeRienzo <pdr@echonyc.com> >Reply-To: pdr@echonyc.com >Organization: Let 'em Talk >X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win16; I) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: wbai <wbai@igc.apc.org> >Subject: [Fwd: !*Protest CNN's "Reliable Sources" Mumia Smear] >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------1729786F7A21" > >The following transcript is from CNN's socalled Reliable Sources >program. They think Pacifica has been "to left for to long." >Paul > >Content-Type: message/rfc822 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline > >Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by echonyc.com >(8.8.5/8.8.3) with ESMTP id IAA11248 for <pdr@echonyc.com>; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 >08:13:15 -0500 (EST) >Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (majordom@asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) >by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id OAA11417; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 >14:11:02 +0100 (MET) >Received: (from majordom@localhost) by asterix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.2) id >OAA29048 for spg-l-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:08:19 +0100 (MET) >Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by >asterix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.2) with ESMTP id OAA29032 for ><spg-l@asterix.xs4all.nl>; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:07:35 +0100 (MET) >Received: from magigimmix.xs4all.nl (magigimmix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.25]) by >smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id OAA10903 for ><spg-l@asterix.xs4all.nl>; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:07:34 +0100 (MET) >Received: from xs1.xs4all.nl (xs1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.42]) by >magigimmix.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id OAA26728 for ><spg-l@magigimmix.xs4all.nl>; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:07:34 +0100 (MET) >Received: (from tank@localhost) by xs1.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) id OAA20065 >for spg-l; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:07:33 +0100 (MET) >Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by >magigimmix.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id OAA25479 for ><tank@xs4all.nl>; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:02:15 +0100 (MET) >Received: from dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.15]) >by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id OAA10092 for <tank@xs4all.nl>; >Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:02:14 +0100 (MET) >Received: (from smap@localhost) > by dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) > id GAA15951; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 06:45:54 -0600 (CST) >Received: from wil-de1-23.ix.netcom.com(205.184.17.55) by >dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) > id sma015890; Tue Mar 11 06:45:38 1997 >Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 06:45:54 -0600 (CST) >Message-Id: <199703111245.GAA15951@dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com> >X-Length: 00001f80 >X-Sender: nattyreb@popd.ix.netcom.com >X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: blackpower@infobro.com >From: Marpessa Kupendua <nattyreb@ix.netcom.com> >Subject: !*Protest CNN's "Reliable Sources" Mumia Smear >Sender: owner-spg-l@asterix.xs4all.nl >Precedence: bulk >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >FORWARDED MESSAGE >====================== > >>Return-Path: <pmathis@bruderhof.com> >>From: pmathis@bruderhof.com >>Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:55:54 -0500 >>Sender: pmathis@bruderhof.com >>Organization: Community >>To: nattyreb@ix.netcom.com (Marpessa Kupendua) >>Subject: Protest CNN's "Reliable Sources" Mumia Smear >>Content-disposition: inline >> >> >>e-mail CNN at <cnn.feedback@cnn.com> >>or fax to 404 827 1593 >>or phone 404 827 0234 >> >> >>On March 9th CNN's "Reliable Sources" ran the following program. >> >>BERNARD KALB: Welcome back to RELIABLE SOURCES. Topic Number Three, >> You Are The Editor. >> >>A couple weeks ago, Pacifica Radio's public affairs program, "Democracy >> Now" began airing commentaries by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former reporter >> convicted in the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. >> Abu-Jamal has been on death row for the past 15 years and has become a >> cause celebre in some liberal intellectual circles. After weeks of >> promoting the insiders look at death row and running one of the >> commentaries as part of a pledge drive, Temple University's WRTI in >> Philadelphia canceled its contract with Pacifica on the day the >> station was to begin airing the commentaries. WRTI is Pacifica's only >> Pennsylvania subscriber and it feeds its programs to its 11 affiliates >> in the state. A university spokesman said the decision to drop >> Pacifica was based on a change in format. >> >>Ellen, you are the editor or rather producer of a radio network. Would >> you have run the story? >> >>ELLEN HUME (PBS): I believe in free speech. I'm interested in some of >> what he has to say and a lot about what the family of the policeman >> that he was convicted of killing has to say about any issue of our >> time. I believe in a diversity of voices. It's a matter of >> packaging. I think this was not done properly. They've given him a >> platform without giving the a comparable sense of the commentary from >> the other side. and I don't think that's fair. Thirteen programs or >> what ever it was of his view of life, death, and happiness, I think >> that it was inappropriate. >> >>MARTIN SCHRAM (Scripps Howard News Service): That's a no, right? >> >>HUME: Right. >> >>SCHRAM: All right, yeah. I'd say I wouldn't have him as a spokesman >> for that point of view. I'd go find someone else and if I were >> running the radio station and I would have to change and not have >> Pacifica as my outlet any more. They've been too far to the left too >> long. I used to hate it when I heard the Reverend Farrakhan's >> speeches time and again on Pacifica here in Washington, which I >> listened to all the time because I love jazz. >> >>JOHN PODHORETZ ("The Weekly Standard"): Well, I mean I don't think >> that the -- Temple University has the right to decide whether or not >> somebody whom it pays to supply it with information is being >> responsible or irresponsible. Mumia Abu-Jamal is a cop killer and >> it's shameful that he should be on the air anywhere. He is not, we >> all believe in diversity of views, but he is somebody whose views >> extend to using a gun to kill somebody and that's beyond the pale. >> >>HOWARD KURTZ (Media Reporter, "Washington Post"): Well, Abu-Jamal >> certainly has first amendment rights to speak out about his case, but >> there is no corresponding responsibility to put him on the air not >> just to talk about his case, but to try to piggy back on the celebrity >> or notoriety that he's already gotten and put him on to talk about >> rap music and other subjects? I don't want to here what he has to say >> about rap music. >> >>HUME: But wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold it. He is a former >> radio journalist. >> >>KURTZ: Right. >> >>HUME: Now, I want to just be a little bit of a devil's advocate >> here, because I think there may be a role for essays from a talented >> radio journalist who happens to, perhaps, have been a terrible cop >> killer at the same time. >> >>KURTZ: Who happens to be a convicted murderer. >> >>HUME: -- who may have some insight into death row, into criminal >> justice, into what his life is like now. that is not necessarily off >> limits for information for our culture. >> >>KALB: Let me come up with another word that's been used in this case. >> the word has been censorship. Is that an accurate word to >> characterize the way this story has evolved? >> >>HUME: I think it's political correctness. I think that the public is >> screaming and yelling..... >> >>KALB: Political correctness.... >> >>HUME: We don't want to here from a cop killer. Why do we constantly >> interview.... >> >>KALB: Is it automatic. >> >>HUME: -- the Jeffrey Dahlmer types of the world and we consider that >> fair play for news but the voice of this guy, who talks about what >> it's like to be in jail and so forth, why is he automatically out of bounds? >> >>PODHORETZ: He's automatically out of bounds because that, I mean that >> is what a civil society does. If you go around killing cops you are >> not then given a vehicle and a forum to express your opinions in that >> way. I mean it's shocking and it's not censorship for a radio station >> management team to decide that it is inappropriate for it to be >> paying money for that purpose. >> >>KALB: Mixed views then, mixed views. When we come back, the good, the >> bad, and the ugly -- the best and worst of American journalism in this >> past week. >> >>(Break) >> >>CONTACT CNN AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. >> >>e-mail CNN at <cnn.feedback@cnn.com> >>or fax to 404 827 1593 >>or phone 404 827 0234 >> >>Free Mumia. >> Pete Mathis >> >> >> > > -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: majordomo@is.in-berlin.de and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@is.in-berlin.de