[Peace-discuss] at SignOn: NPR, CFR: Don't Enable Elliott Abrams' Smear Campaign on Chuck Hagel

[Stuart Levy]

On 1/11/13 12:17 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
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> It doesn't call for NPR to not say something. It doesn't call for any 
> specific action. It just says "not enable."
>
> I think there two acceptable paths:
>
> 1) not have someone like Elliott Abrams on as a guest
> 2) have him on, but have him seriously challenged.
>
> NPR did neither one.
>
This would be a good thing to say as part of the text of the petition.   
I did sign, but would be happier - and maybe others would too - with 
more guidance as to what it means to not be an enabling news source.   
(1) + (2) make sense to me.

> The BBC, if they were going to do an interview like that, would have 
> someone who was prepared to really challenge, either a reporter who 
> was prepared to really challenge, or another guest who was prepared to 
> really challenge, *at the same time.* It doesn't undo the damage of a 
> smear to have someone else on at another time who says something else.
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Carl G. Estabrook 
> <galliher at illinois.edu <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
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>     And it calls for NPR *not* to say something.
>
>     NPR has become a shameful apologist for government crimes, but the
>     cure for bad speech is more speech, not less.
>
>
>     On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Robert Naiman
>     <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>     <mailto:naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>> wrote:
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>>     The point here is Elliott Abrams, not Chuck Hagel or Barack
>>     Obama. There's nothing in the petition that says I support Obama
>>     or Hagel. It's all about Elliott Abrams.
>>
>>     On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Carl G. Estabrook
>>     <galliher at illinois.edu <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>         And give Obama cover for his child-murders?
>>
>>
>>         On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Robert Naiman
>>         <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>>         <mailto:naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>> wrote:
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>>>         Can you help me get this rolling?
>>>
>>>         http://signon.org/sign/npr-cfr-dont-enable-elliott?source=c.url&r_by=1135580
>>>
>>>         -- 
>>>         Robert Naiman
>>>         Policy Director
>>>         Just Foreign Policy
>>>         www.justforeignpolicy.org <http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/>
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>>
>>     -- 
>>     Robert Naiman
>>     Policy Director
>>     Just Foreign Policy
>>     www.justforeignpolicy.org <http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/>
>>     naiman at justforeignpolicy.org <mailto:naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
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