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>The following transcript is from CNN's socalled Reliable Sources
>program. They think Pacifica has been "to left for to long."
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>>Return-Path: <pmathis@bruderhof.com>
>>From: pmathis@bruderhof.com
>>Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:55:54 -0500
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>>To: nattyreb@ix.netcom.com (Marpessa Kupendua)
>>Subject: Protest CNN's "Reliable Sources" Mumia Smear
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>>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
>>
>>
>>
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