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- Subject: clari-news article on Filipino charges
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.160523.17467@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:05:23 GMT
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- WEST ORANGE, N.J. (UPI) -- A Filipino group has filed a $65 million
- lawsuit against controversial radio personality Howard Stern for
- allegedly racist remarks Stern made against Filipinos.
- The Congress of Filipino American Citizens, a group based in West
- Orange, N.J.said Friday it is seeking damages for allegedly slanderous
- remarks Stern made during a September radio broadcast.
- The CFAC's suit, filed Monday in the New York Supreme Court, also
- named Infinity Broadcasting Corp. the parent company that owns Stern's
- Manhattan-based radio show, and WWOR-TV, Secaucus, N.J. which carried
- his television show until recently. Infinity Broadcasting declined to
- comment.
- e CFAC's $65 million class action suit against Mr. Stern is a
- statement aimed at protecting and vindicating Filipino dignity and
- honor, which Stern maliciously maligned with his manifestly racist
- comments,`` the embassy said in a statement Thursday.
- The suit also named Infinity Broadcasting Corp., the parent company
- that owns Stern's Manhattan-based radio show. The company declined to
- comment Friday.
- CFAC spokesman Jimmy Romero said Friday, ``He attacked not just a
- group of Filipinos but the entire Filipino race by calling us cannibals
- and saying we sell our young for sex. That is an insult to every
- Filipino in the world.'' Romero said the amount of the suit is a
- symbolic amount arrived at by charging $1 for each of the estimated 65
- million Filipinos worldwide.
- He said the group was preparing to follow up the suit with twin
- demonstrations this Saturday and on Nov. 14 at WWOR-TV.
- CFAC Chairman Gonzalo Velez called for action by the Federal
- Communications Commission against Stern, whom he described as ``vulgar
- and abusive,'' for using public airwaves ``to malign millions of people.
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- Less than two weeks ago, the FCC imposed a record $105,000 fine on a
- Los Angeles radio station for broadcasting ``indecent'' Stern programs.
- Romero said if the suit is successful the money would be sent to the
- Philippines for economic development programs.
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