City Newspaper Archives - 6/2007
MEDIA: WROC AIRS 'DEMOCRACY NOW'
Published by Tim Louis Macaluso on Jun 12, 2007
Metro Justice has waged an aggressive but unsuccessful campaign to persuade management at WXXI to carry the program. Organizer Jon Greenbaum says Metro Justice delivered more than 5,000 post cards to the public-broadcasting institution requesting the program.
"We met with WXXI's board of directors and major contributors, but they said no and wouldn't veer from that position," says Greenbaum. "They felt Democracy Now! was advocacy journalism and Amy Goodman's interviews did not reflect mainstream views. That wasn't true then and is even less true now. Hers was a dissenting voice, but not all of her guests were against the war in Iraq. Now that the tide has turned, dissenting views are the loudest part of the mainstream."
An anonymous donor, Greenbaum says, has paid WROC to air Democracy Now! for two years.
