{"id":2139,"date":"2007-11-29T11:38:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2007-11-29T11:38:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:38:29","slug":"journalists-decry-racism-in-media-coverage-of-mumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/11\/29\/journalists-decry-racism-in-media-coverage-of-mumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Decry Racism in Media Coverage of Mumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest112907_943\/2007_11_29_bennett.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest112907_943\/2007_11_29_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Hans Bennett, Journalists for Mumia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On December 6th, NBC&#8217;s Today Show will feature a new book coinciding with its release date about death-row journalist Mumia Abu Jamal. The book&#8217;s title, &#8220;Murdered by Mumia,&#8221; reveals its intent. It is co-written by the widow of the Philadelphia Police Officer that Abu Jamal was convicted of killing, Maureen Faulkner, and conservative radio talk show host Michael Smerconish. The book, say Faulkner and Smerconish is &#8220;the first &#8230; to carefully and definitively lay out the case against Abu-Jamal, and those who\u2019ve elevated him to the status of political prisoner.&#8221;   Fearing a program rife with bias, the group &#8220;Journalists for Mumia&#8221; are calling on NBC to ensure that all sides are fairly represented on next week&#8217;s Today Show. They contend that there has been a history of media bias with respect to covering the case of Mumia Abu Jamal. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abu-jamal-news.com\">www.abu-jamal-news.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/freemumia.com\">freemumia.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Hans Bennett, Journalists for Mumia On December 6th, NBC&#8217;s Today Show will feature a new book coinciding with its release date about death-row journalist Mumia Abu Jamal. The book&#8217;s title, &#8220;Murdered by Mumia,&#8221; reveals its intent. It is co-written by the widow of the Philadelphia Police Officer that Abu Jamal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}