[Peace-discuss] Channel 3 toes the line

[Linda Evans]

I'm actually surprised they called to begin with since
I'm assuming they knew your position.  Maybe this
means you did so well that they couldn't edit the
interview in such a way as to make you/your views look
bad.  :-)

Linda

Kill your TV
--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> I just had a call from Alexandra Harold, a WCIA
> reporter.  I
> had called to ask why Channel 3 had not run the
> interview that
> I had done with them about the London bombings, in
> which I'd
> expressed opinions I take to be generally held in
> AWARE,
> notably that the bombings were a result of the
> occupation of
> Iraq and that the US should withdraw.
> 
> Ms. Harold said that they preferred to use an
> interview with
> the chair of the ACDIS group on campus, who's
> pro-war, and a
> woman who'd lived in London. In answer to my
> question, she
> said that they'd aired no one expressing views like
> ours. 
> 
> I said that's just what we'd expect from for-profit
> media, who
> were carefully observing the limits of allowable
> debate.  I
> don't expect WCIA to call again. --CGE
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