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Dems Shift Focus To Race, Poverty In South Carolina and New
Mexico, A Minority Majority State
CBS Censorship At Super Bowl? Network Bars Progressive MoveOn.org
Ads
Kucinich Harshly Critical of Election Media Coverage and
Iraq Occupation
Dems Shift Focus To Race, Poverty In South Carolina
and New Mexico, A Minority Majority State
Primaries and caucuses will be held in seven states tomorrow
in the 2004 campaign's biggest day so far. People of color
comprise a large percentage of the vote in a number of the
states. We take a look at two of them: South Carolina where
African Americans comprise 37% of the voters and New Mexico
where Hispanics and Native Americans actually outnumber whites.
From North Dakota to South Carolina, from Delaware to Oklahoma
to New Mexico. The seven states in Tuesday's Democratic primaries
span the country.
In all, 269 delegates will be at stake on tomorrow at seven
primaries and caucuses. Together they represent more than
12 percent of the more than 2,000 delegates needed to claim
the Democratic nomination.
South Carolina holds one of the featured contests, the first
Southern state to vote and the first election expected to
draw heavy participation by African American voters - who
comprise approximately 37 percent of the state.
Another state, New Mexico, is the nation's most Latino state
who make up 42 percent of the state's population. With a Native
American population of 9 percent - people of color in New
Mexico represents a unique population: they are the majority
of the voters.
- Deepak Bhargava, Director of the Center for Community
Change, a non partisan, national organization based in D.C.
that is helping do voter registration around the country
and raise awareness around issues of poverty. The organization
was a sponsor and organizer of the forum on poverty and
race held in Colombia, South Carolina this past Friday.
All of the candidates, except Senator Joseph Lieberman who
is campaigning in Delaware, answered questions from the
audience, made up mostly of minority and low-income people.
- Jeremiah Johnson, reporter covering election news for
KUNM community radio in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
CBS Censorship At Super Bowl? Network Bars Progressive
MoveOn.org Ads
CBS refused to sell ad time to MoveOn and the People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals during the Super Bowl because
the network claimed it did not accept advocacy advertising.
Democracy Now! broadcasts the banned ad and a few others and
hears from MoveOn's campaign director.
The New England Patriots beat the Carolina Panthers yesterday
in Super Bowl XXXVIII. Millions of people around the country
gathered to watch the game and see the halftime ads that feature
some of the most expensive airtime of the year.
But there were two ads that nobody got to see.
CBS - which was broadcasting the Super Bowl - refused to
sell ad time to two organizations: MoveOn and the People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals because the network claimed
it did not accept advocacy advertising.
MoveOn recently held a contest called "Bush in 30 Seconds"
that asked for filmmakers to make a 30-second anti-Bush ad.
More than 1100 videos were submitted. MoveOn planned to show
the winning ad during the Super Bowl. PETA was planning to
broadcast an ad that charged eating meat can cause impotence.
The MoveOn winner was an 18-second piece called "Child's
Pay," protesting the Bush administration's creation of
massive deficits while cutting taxes for the nation's wealthiest
people and institutions.
More than 340,000 people filed complaints with CBS over the
network's decision not to run the ad. On Monday Senator Dick
Durbin said the ban is "Exhibit A in the case against
media concentration." According to the publication, Broadcasting
and Cable, Durbin charged that CBS was refusing to run an
ad critical of Bush in return for the White House's support
for a higher media ownership cap that will allow CBS's parent
company Viacom to keep all of its stations. Durbin said "The
CBS Eye has been closed to truth and to fairness."
- Eli Pariser, Campaign Director for the political action
group, MoveOn.org.
Kucinich Harshly Critical of Election Media Coverage
and Iraq Occupation
As some pundits and a New York Times editorial call for
Rep. Dennis Kucinich and the Rev. Al Sharpton to be excluded
from future debates we play an extended interview with Kucinich
discussing the occupation of Iraq and the corporate media's
coverage of his campaign.
As voters in seven states are set to cast their ballots in
tomorrow's primaries, some pundits are calling for the two
staunchest opponents of the invasion and occupation of Iraq
to be excluded from future debates - Dennis Kucinich and the
Reverend Al Sharpton. In a January 28 editorial, called "Defrosting
the Primaries", the New York Times editors wrote "Representative
Dennis Kucinich has every right to keep campaigning despite
his minuscule vote tallies, but he should not be allowed to
take up time in future candidate debates. Neither should the
Rev. Al Sharpton, who is running to continue running, not
to win."
Kucinich has said that he will continue his campaign all
the way to the Democratic convention in August. Sharpton has
not indicated how long he will remain in the race, but he
is hoping for a strong showing in South Carolina tomorrow
where some polls predict he will get up to half of the state's
African-American votes.
Last week in New Hampshire, we had a chance to talk extensively
to one of the people the New York Times doesn't want in the
debates--Congressmember Dennis Kucinich
- Rep Dennis Kucinich, Democratic presidential candidate
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