MEDIA FAIRNESS FOR MUMIA?

Hans Bennet writes:

On Dec. 6, NBC’s The Today Show intends to air a show about Michael Smerconish and Maureen Faulkner’s new book “Murdered By Mumia.” (Faulkner is the wife of a Philadelphia Policemen allegedly killed by Mumia.) According to the announcement on Michael Smerconish’s website, the show is planning to feature both Smerconish and Faulkner as guests.

The International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (FreeMumia.com), Journalists for Mumia (Abu-Jamal-News.com), and Educators for Mumia (EmajOnline.com) have initiated a media-activist campaign urging people to write The Today Show at today@msnbc.com asking them to fairly present both sides of the Mumia Abu-Jamal / Daniel Faulkner case, by also featuring as guests, Linn Washington, Jr. (Philadelphia Tribune columnist and Associate Professor of Journalism at Temple University) and Dr. Suzanne Ross (Clinical Psychologist and Co-Chair of the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC).

NY TIMES AO SCOTT REVIEWS “REDACTED” IN VIDEO

NEW PLAY IN NYC ON JAMES BALDWIN, an Inspiration and friend.

FINALLY, SOME NEWS FROM HARPERS.ORG

A man in rural Tennessee was accused of raping his teenage daughters, whom he controlled with wireless electric-shock dog collars; an Atlanta wrestler named Hardbody Harrison, who calls his fists “The Pork Chop” and “The Biscuit Cutter,” was on trial for keeping nine women as sex slaves; and a Washington man was arrested after he beat his girlfriend for giving him a wet willie. British scientists workingwith negative index metamaterials said that they were developing a technique that could someday be used to capture a rainbow.

Watch here: NEW VIDEO ON NANCY NORD:

The video calls for the resignation of the nation’s top product safety official, Nancy Nord, for opposing legislation to strengthen Consumer Product Safety Commission oversight on toy safety while taking trips paid for by the toy industry.

WATCH: REMEMBERING ANITA RODDICK

This is a tribute to the late Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop and friend of Globalvision.

THE SHOOTING OF ITALIAN JOURNALIST GIULIANA SREGNA REVISITED

TRAVELIN MAN

I will be off to Boston later today on the Vamoose Wi-Fi equipped bus to see my dad for the holiday. In the morning I will be on the radio first with KPFA in Berkley and then with Santita Jackson on WVON in Chicago, and I may be in the windy city this weekend to screen IN DEBT WE TRUST. A Dissector’s work is never done.

Happy Holiday to one and all. Back Monday or sooner if the X Factor intrudes or the Great OZ calls.

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