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- From: erik@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Erik Lode)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:03:39 GMT
- Subject: Re: domestic violence & the super bowl
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- mcole@sub-40 (Mary Cole) writes:
-
- > |To try to stem this tide of violence, the Women's Action Coalition
- > (WAC) of Los Angeles is supporting the campaign by Fairness and Accuracy
- > in Reporting (FAIR) to convince NBC (the network carrying the game) to
- > carry two Public Service Announcements on domestic violence during the
- > Super Bowl this year. Anna Quindlen of the New York Times wrote a fine
- > editorial in the 1/17/93 edition of the Times supporting this effort as
- > well.
-
- That sounds like a great idea--one announcement showing a man abusing
- a woman, and the other showing a woman abusing a man. (Keeping with
- actual proportions, too.) It would be a good opportunity to open some
- people's eyes.
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