An Open Letter to Racist MSNBC By Jim Kirwan

An Open Letter to Racist MSNBC

By Jim Kirwan

Al-Jazeerah, November 22, 2004

Mr. Neal Shapiro President NBC 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112-0002

Mr. Rick Kaplan President MSNBC 1 MSNBC Plaza Secaucus, NJ 07094-2419

People,

Don Imus is anything but reflective or civilized, in his views concerning the people that make up a third of the world. If remarks of that nature were to be directed toward him or indeed toward both you Neal, and Rick, then lawsuits would be flying fast and furious at whoever that person might be. So why the double standard - money alone can't justify allowing this Imus to keep on putting out whatever filth he chooses to pour into the national airwaves that are not his to defile.

It is way past time that the public in the USA began to finally get serious about three very important points, concerning those who use the airwaves here for fun and profit.

First; the FCC commission needs to be restructured, without the services of Mr. Powell.

Second; Legislation must be drawn up, seriously charging the networks for their private use of the airwaves that belong to the public, (to include retroactive payments going back as far as legally permitted) and, the public's share of your profits, needs to be funneled back into the social programs that have not been funded by your Commander-in-Thief.

Third; As your "news" divisions have been demoted to mere entertainment sub-divisions of your networks, all references to the word "news" should be forever denied to you and yours for any commercial purposes. What you broadcast is propaganda, filth, and gossip - there is only something like about 3 seconds of "news" value in any of your programming, all the rest of it is either infomercials or outright lies!

There needs to be a complete and renewed adherence to "truth in advertising laws" and since you no longer have news programming, you need to stop using that identifier as having anything to do with what you put out over the airwaves.

Imus should become your national mascot - because he is EXACTLY what you stand for and WHO you collectively have become. If you think there will not be payback for the trash-talk of Don Imus, think again - because the world is now too small for anyone to continuously spew HATE, without others of like mind, but of opposing views, to reverse the situation and make the networks and Don Imus into their targets of opportunity, just as Imus has used the people of the Middle East.

Think about this please, because this is far more of a crime than just some dj, running his filthy mouth. Who knows, if you anger the public often enough, perhaps all that stuff at the beginning of this note might just become serious legislation - and I know you wouldn't want that!

Jim Kirwan

Earth, a planet hungry for peace

Apartheid Wall


The Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid Wall built inside the Palestinian territories, here separating Abu Dis from occupied East Jerusalem. (IPC, 7/4/04).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03).

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