Amerikkka's Finest (fwd)

[SHAWGI TELL <v600a8e6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI.


Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:41:06 -0500
From: Emiliano Zapata <zapata@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Multiple recipients of list MULT-CUL <MULT-CUL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Amerikkka's Finest

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 15:56:46 EST
From: Rodney Coates <coatesrd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies
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Subject: CBS and Racism:


Here is the article from 1/16/96
CBS Studies Racism Charge

By LAWRIE MIFFLIN
c.1996 N.Y. Times News Service

   NEW YORK - CBS began an internal investigation Tuesday to determine
whether a high-level executive in its entertainment division made
racist remarks at a meeting with a comedy troupe called the State, as
asserted in an article in Details magazine.

   John Pike, the senior vice president of late-night and non-network
programming for CBS, met with the 10-member comedy troupe and two
producers late last summer to discuss a comedy special they were
taping
for CBS.

   There, according to the article, he told them that
African-Americans
were an important segment of viewers to attract because they had no
jobs and could stay up to watch late-night television; because they
could not follow hourlong dramas and enjoyed comedy sketches, and
because network television, unlike cable, is free.

   David Lipsky, a freelance writer whose assignment for Details was
to
cover the State for six weeks as they worked to develop their show for
CBS, reported the remarks, in paraphrase, in an article for the
February issue of Details.

   The article also includes a disclaimer by Pike: ``I would never
have
said any of those things.''

   The article, written in the present tense, notes that Lipsky was
not
in the room at the meeting.

   Reached by telephone Tuesday, Lipsky said he had been told about
Pike's remarks by troupe members. ``I heard it from several sources,''
he said, ``and reconfirmed it myself, and the magazine's fact-checkers
reconfirmed it again.''

   Pike could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but he is quoted in
this week's Variety, where he calls Lipsky's article ``a totally
unfair
characterization.''

   According to Variety, Pike said he had told the comedy troupe that
   the late-night audience has a significant African-American
component, and that ``the minority community was a voracious consumer
of comedy material,'' as well as ``voracious consumers of free
television.''

   CBS Entertainment president Leslie Moonves issued a statement
saying
the allegations were serious and would be promptly investigated.

   00:19 EST   JANUARY 17, 1996

NYT-01-16-96 2250EST
 NYTviaNewsEDGE :TICKER: WX :SUBJECT: BCST LIFE PA INDG

Copyright (c) 1996 The New York Times Co.  Received by NewsEDGE/LAN:
1/16/96 11:21 PM


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Still in the struggle

Rodney D. Coates
Director of Black World Studies
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Miami University
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