[Peace-discuss] Channel 3 toes the line

[Morton K. Brussel]

A good reason for a letter to the N-Gazette decrying the muffling of  
anti-establishment views on TV (and elsewhere). Also, an opening for  
a critical view of what the London bombings really signify.

--mkb


On Jul 10, 2005, at 9:17 PM, C. G. Estabrook 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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