[Imc] RE: Protest if Amy Goodman is harrassed again

[pfmueth]

It doesn't look like UL feels worried about her job. This doesn't bodw well at 
all. The webactive.com website has not yet posted today's DN, but sometimes 
they are late. . .


-----Original Message-----
           From: Lyn Gerry [redlyn at loop.com]
           Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:41 PM
           To: savewbai at lists.tao.ca; emmasdance at cs.pdx.edu;
           savepacifica at peacenet.org; Pacifica-Affiliates at yahoogroups.com;
           nyfreemedia at tao.ca; NYC-DAN at topica.com
           Subject: Democracy Now! Harassed

           From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net>
           Subject: Democracy Now! Harassed

           Friends,

           Sources say that minutes before air time this morning, and without 
explanation, interim general manager Utrice Leid once again threw Amy Goodman 
and Democracy Now! (DN) out of the master broadcast studio and into           
WBAI's Studio 3--a small, sub-standard broadcast space not suited to a 
national program. Leid last moved the show into Studio 3 this past May, when 
Democracy Now! was taken off the air for 3 weeks in New York.

           Technical challenges abound. Studio 3 cannot accommodate multiple 
phone guests, and the clock--a critical component of professional radio 
production--has been broken for months. The clock in Studio 3 is in fact 
covered with gold foil. When Goodman commented on the clock to Leid, sources 
say Leid sarcastically told Goodman to go buy one. National program director 
Stephen Yasko (a staunch promoter of Pacifica's professionalism) also happened 
to be at WBAI this morning when the DN staff was racing to prepare. Goodman 
asked Yasko for a clock. He then brought her one without numbers.

           Other morning producers laughed as they watched Goodman and her 
staff hurrying to prepare Studio 3 for a complicated show. Sources say Leid 
mocked them by saying, *Watch them run. Watch them run.*

           When a Democracy Now! producer asked Leid if DN would in fact be 
broadcast to the New York audience today, sources say Leid got right up into 
the producer's face and, in a highly agitated state said: *You do not talk
to me. You are a producer. You do not question me. You do not interrogate 
Utrice Leid.*

           Goodman has been warned repeatedly regarding her *Banned and Fired* 
sign off. Sources say that because of how bad conditions still are at WBAI, 
she still ends her show with a pointed reference to the results of the
 Christmas Coup.

           Eileen Sutton
           Banned WBAI Unpaid News Reporter
           Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship
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