To: willcousa who wrote (129407 ) 2/27/2001 11:47:44 AM From: MulhollandDrive Respond to Check this out...Dr. Judith Rodin Dr. Berry lied to the media on several issues. She did not misstate; she outright lied, and this can be documented. The following day, the watchdog group Media Alliance intercepted a misdirected internal memo revealing that the Pacifica board has been discussing the sale of Pacifica "assets" the day after Dr. Berry denied such rumors. She continued to do so, while sternly reiterating that staff would be fired for discussing internal matters on air. Apparently on Berry's instructions, a newscaster was dragged from his microphone for reporting the memo as her newly imported manager took the station off the air. The scuffle between Dennis Bernstein and armed guards was heard throughout Northern California, and when hundreds of people gathered at the station (I was one), the Berkeley Police were ordered by Dr. Berry's minions to evict and arrest those within the building, including its staff. These events have been covered by all news outlets, including yesterday's rally of 2000 people at the station. I have witnessed the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission impose censorship and deny citizens their Constitutional rights to free speech and peaceful assembly. I have heard a member of the academic community lie to the press; as both a former journalist and a present academic, I am doubly incensed by such behavior. I have watched Dr. Berry cynically play the race card despite the objections of many people of color to whom she has never bothered to speak. These include people of the stature of Alice Walker and June Jordan, as well as the young people at KPFA whose interests she claims to support yet whom she has stonewalled.
