02 June 2003

NPR unable to crush dissent

Terry Hughes has a new job. Before that,
Hughes was fired from WEMU because he refused to run National Public Radio news headlines at the top of the hour and because he repeatedly expressed his political views about the war in Iraq (pro-war and pro-President Bush).
Hughes considers himself better off because
Ironically, a station owned by the largest radio chain in the United States is giving Hughes what he couldn't get from a Public Radio station: complete creative control.
Of course, it doesn't seem ironic to those of us who've been following NPR's crushing of dissent in the past. [source, source]
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Arafat endorses child suicide

On International Children’s Day, Yasser Arafat held a meeting with a group of children: [source, source]
Arafat devoted his remarks to encouraging the children to be “shahid” (die for the cause), noting that one shahid who dies for the sake of Jerusalem has the power equal to 40 of the enemy dying.
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