[Imc] RE: Protest if Amy Goodman is harrassed again
pfmueth
pfmueth at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Thu Aug 9 17:01:03 UTC 2001
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. . .
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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;
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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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