An excellent new article by Linn Washington entitled "Glenn Beck's Mumia Obsession: Fox Finds a New Black Boogeyman" has been released today at Counterpunch.org. Be sure and check it out. Linn Washington has been covering this case from day one -- literally. He is arguably the foremost journalistic authority on the case. Below as well is a 3-part you tube video series of his talk at a recent event for Mumia in Philadelphia.
Also, check out Washington's partial archive here:
http://abu-jamal-news.com/...
Below is an excerpt, but you can read the full Counterpunch article here:
http://counterpunch.org/...
Relax Rev Jeremiah Wright. The Fox News cable channel crew has discovered a new all-purpose black boogey-man to rile latent racial animosity in America: Mumia Abu-Jamal, the internationally acclaimed death row journalist. Abu-Jamal is now a regular reference in the weapons of mass deception arsenal employed by Fox and its friends to demonize their enemies de jour. A few weeks ago, the campaign mounted by two Fox ideological allies that successfully sacked Fox liberal commentator Dr. Marc Lamont Hill highlighted Hill’s backing of a fair trial for Abu-Jamal as an objectionable offense. Far-right agitators David Horowitz and Cliff Kincaid saw sinful scandal in FOX simply employing Columbia University Professor Hill for what the scholar was: a liberal hired by Fox to question postures conservatives proclaim sacrosanct. Kincaid, in an October 19th posting on his Accuracy in Media site, scored Hill for calling Abu-Jamal a "freedom fighter and political prisoner." Earlier this summer Fox’s onslaught against now former White House ‘Green Jobs Czar’ Van Jones frequently cited Jones’ support for Abu-Jamal who is on Pennsylvania’s death row due to a controversy mired conviction for killing a Philadelphia policeman.
Relax Rev Jeremiah Wright.
The Fox News cable channel crew has discovered a new all-purpose black boogey-man to rile latent racial animosity in America: Mumia Abu-Jamal, the internationally acclaimed death row journalist.
Abu-Jamal is now a regular reference in the weapons of mass deception arsenal employed by Fox and its friends to demonize their enemies de jour.
A few weeks ago, the campaign mounted by two Fox ideological allies that successfully sacked Fox liberal commentator Dr. Marc Lamont Hill highlighted Hill’s backing of a fair trial for Abu-Jamal as an objectionable offense.
Far-right agitators David Horowitz and Cliff Kincaid saw sinful scandal in FOX simply employing Columbia University Professor Hill for what the scholar was: a liberal hired by Fox to question postures conservatives proclaim sacrosanct.
Kincaid, in an October 19th posting on his Accuracy in Media site, scored Hill for calling Abu-Jamal a "freedom fighter and political prisoner."
Earlier this summer Fox’s onslaught against now former White House ‘Green Jobs Czar’ Van Jones frequently cited Jones’ support for Abu-Jamal who is on Pennsylvania’s death row due to a controversy mired conviction for killing a Philadelphia policeman.