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    Props to KCBS and KCOP (13) (in LA) for a lenghty informative segment of the Genocide events, KCOP added clips from the System of a Down concert at the Greek.

    KNBC and KABC should be sent letters, emails as they only reported on the genocide and the events in a 7-10 second segment.

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    And don't forget NBC and ABC are less local and more national and international. The bigger the media the less coverage on the Armenian Genocide. Usually those stations are the ones who spend more time covering the Holocaust.
    Achkerov kute.

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      New York Times changed its policy on not using the term Genocide:

      NEW YORK TIMES REVERSES POLICY ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

      ANCA Welcomes Historic Move by Newspaper to Properly Characterize Armenian Genocide

      WOODSIDE, NY - In a move aimed at reaffirming its past record on the first genocide of the 20th Century, the New York Times has lifted its long-standing policy against the use of the term "Armenian Genocide," reported the Armenian National Committee (ANC) of New York.

      According to a news release by the International Association of Genocide Scholars, The New York Times revised guideline for journalists states that 'after careful study of scholarly definitions of genocide we have decided to accept the term in references to the Turkish mass destruction of Armenians in and around 1915.' The policy goes on to note that the expression 'Armenian genocide' may be used freely and should not be qualified with phrasing like 'what Armenians call' etc.

      The New York Times guidelines continue, noting that, by most historical accounts, the Ottoman empire killed more than one million Armenians in a campaign of death and mass deportation aimed at eliminating the Armenian population throughout what is now Turkey. Finally it advises journalists that while we may of course report Turkish denials on those occasions when they are relevant, we should not couple them with the historians findings, as if they had equal weight.

      "We welcome this decision taken by the New York Times as a meaningful step toward ending official U.S. complicity in the Turkish government's campaign to deny the Armenian Genocide," said ANC of New York Chairperson Tony Vartanian. We appreciate the tremendous contribution of all organizations, historians and activists who, over the years, worked to provide the necessary information to the New York Times so that they can make this informed, but long overdue decision. Armenian Americans feel a tremendous sense of pride that the Times - the paper of record - no longer actively participates in the denial of this great crime against humanity."

      The New York Times recently released guidelines returns the newspaper to its policy of accurate reporting established during the years of the Armenian Genocide. According to Peter Balakian's New York Times best-seller, "The Burning Tigris, the Times published 145 articles on the Armenian massacres in 1915 alone (an article about every two and a half days)." The term 'enocide'would not be coined for similar crimes against humanity until the 1940'.

      For more than two decades, the ANC, working with its network of grassroots activists around the country, initiated several nationwide campaigns to press The New York Times to end its practice of dismissing the Armenian Genocide as simply an Armenian historical claim. During an ANCA campaign in 2002, activists specifically asked the Times:

      ** What standard does the New York Times use in the application of the word genocide in its news stories

      ** What is the New York Times specific policy on the use of the term genocide in its coverage of the Armenian Genocide?


      Last year, the ANC of Eastern Massachusetts spearheaded the successful effort to urge the Boston Globe to suspend its policy against the use of the term "genocide" when referring to the Armenian Genocide. The decision was made in July 2003, setting a precedent for its parent company - The New York Times - to reexamine its policy.
      Last edited by ckBejug; 04-26-2004, 12:12 AM.
      The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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