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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: NBC News Blackout on Black Senatorial Candidate
- Message-ID: <nyikos.721596328@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Keywords: slavery, pro-life
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- References: <nyikos.720712856@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <BxDwJ3.71z@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 19:25:28 GMT
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- In <BxDwJ3.71z@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu> akbloom@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Keith Bloom) writes:
-
- >nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
-
- >>Last night, NBC Nightly News carried information about women and minority
- >>candidates. It said that there were 11 women candidates for the US Senate,
- >>and over a hundred (I forget the exact number) for the House. When it
- >>came the turn of Blacks, however, all we were told was that there were
- >>approximately 60 candidates for the House.
-
- >Mr. Nyikos' article seems to have been caught in a time warp, since he
- >posted it the night before the election and it hasn't reached this
- >site until today (November 6).
-
- In fact, yours was one of the earliest sites! Apparently nothing of
- mine from Nov. 2 on got posted any earlier. I have no idea where the
- posts were hibernating either.
-
- >As someone else has already pointed out, there were at least two:
- >Alan Keyes in Maryland and Carol Moseley Braun in Illinois. If NBC
- >did indeed fail to mention any Black candidates for U.S. Senate, it
- >was a grievous fault; but Mr. Nyikos cannot plausibly claim that the
- >oversight was due to Keyes' pro-life views, because Braun is decidedly
- >pro-choice.
-
- I can still claim it, though less plausibly. NBC news might have
- decided that if it said there were two, then the legions of people
- who knew about Ms. Braun might have wondered, "Who is the other one?"
-
- >To make matters even worse for him, the Republican National Committee
- >decided to cut off financial support for his campaign, on the grounds
- >that he had no chance of winning. It's hard to get much media
- >attention if you have no money and if your own party doesn't think
- >you're a viable candidate.
-
- I wasn't expecting much media coverage, I was only hoping for bare
- acknowledgement of his existence. See again what I wrote above.
-
- >>The state of Maryland also has the most radically pro-choice laws
- >>on aboriton, outstripping Roe v. Wade and even FOCA, the so-called
- >>Freedom of Choice Act.
-
- >It doesn't outstrip Roe v. Wade; it falls short of Roe by including
- >provisions for parental notification. (Those provisions can be waived
- >under some circumstances.) I'd like to see some documentation for the
- >assertion that Maryland has "the most radically pro-choice laws."
- >What are the abortion laws in New York, California, and Oregon (which
- >passed a pro-choice referendum a couple of years ago)?
-
- In the _Village Voice_ quite a few months ago, Nat Hentoff went at this
- law with all the rhetoric at his command, detailing how it allows abortions
- at any time for fetal "defects", and when a legislator wanted to amend
- it to say "serious defects," he was voted down, in part because the
- person who introduced the bill threatened to withdraw it if a single
- word was changed.
-
- >Anyone who has thought about abortion for more than thirty seconds has
- >given the matter far more thought than George Bush.
-
- You are exaggerating for effect. Why would he repeatedly veto legislation
- with lots of attractive features (even for him) because of
- abortion-supporting clauses, if he hadn't given the matter SOME thought?
-
-