{"article":{"id":2489,"heading":"Dissector's Diary: Talking Back to the Media","author":"Danny Schechter","created":"2000-08-19 13:05:11","modified":"2005-08-15 00:24:15","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:24:15","article":"

DISSECTOR'S DIARY:

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18th: SPEAKING BACK TO THE MEDIA

Danny Schechter

News Dissector

Mediachannel.org



There used to be something called equal time and the right to reply to TV editorials and coverage. I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of a previously unpublished television address delivered in l972 at a local TV station in Charlotte North Carolina. It was delivered by a citizen upset about the way the protests at the Republican convention were covered that year on TV. (Some of those protests would later be restaged by Oliver Stone in his film, \"Born on the 4th of July.\")























































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