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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (220297)	2/22/2007 12:00:18 PM
From: SARMAN	Respond to of 281500

Nadine, sure, if it makes you happy.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (220297)	2/22/2007 12:03:28 PM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 281500

This is kind of weird. I received this DVD on the Aremian Genocide by Laurence Jordan attached to the inside of my Time Magazine about 2-3 weeks ago. I've just looked it up on the internet, and here's what I find. That was 2005, I received my copy a few weeks ago..... --------------------- armeniapedia.org TIME (Europe Edition) Oct 17, 2005 (from hard copy) Time Apologizes and Prints Letter Condemning DVD Denying Armenian Genocide Time Magazine European Edition printed a full-page letter in its October 17, 2005 edition, decrying the magazine~Rs inclusion of a DVD that included a documentary, which denied the Armenian Genocide. The letter was written by Bernard Jouanneau, the President of Memory 2000, which is described as "representatives of . . .French organizations whose aim is to fight against racism, anti-Semitism and for the memory of the Armenian Genocide." Mr. Jouanneau is a leading lawyer and activist defending against anti-defamation concerning the denial of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. Directly following Mr. Jouanneau's letter, Time's editors expressed regret for the offense caused by distributing the DVD. "The so-called documentary portion of the DVD presents a one-sided view of history that does not meet our standards for fairness and accuracy, and we would not have distributed it had we been aware of its content," said the editors. Claiming that the DVD was not adequately reviewed, the editors announced a change in their review process to avoid such future incidents. They conclude by apologizing to the Armenian community. In his letter, Mr. Jouanneau asserts the magazine~Rs responsibility regardless of whether or not the Turkish Chamber of Commerce misled them. He says redress for distributing the DVD to 500,000 house holds across twelve European countries should include 1) disclosure of officials standards used by Time when considering the inclusion of an ad and whether a similar DVD denying the Holocaust would have been acceptable, 2) free distribution of a "DVD prepared by the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD) regarding the history and modern-day consequences of the Armenian Genocide," and 3) a donation from the revenue earned from the Turkish advertisement to a nonprofit organization dedicated to informing the public about the truth of the Armenian genocide and other genocides. The letter describes in detail many of the "lies, racial defamation, personal defamation and historical mistakes in this DVD, which contains all the techniques of disinformation and propaganda." Jouanneau points out footage of Justin McCarthy, a known revisionist of the Armenian Genocide, who says that the survival of some Armenians proves that a genocide did not take place. The letter strongly objected to the characterization of all Armenians as terrorists and accusations that Armenians collaborated with the Nazis to exterminate the Jews. Mr. Jouanneau criticizes Time~Rs editors for contributing to Turkey~Rs campaign to deny the Armenian Genocide. In doing so, Jouanneau condemns Time for aiding Turkey's precedent of having committed a genocide with impunity. "TIME magazine has helped embolden future perpetrators of genocide with the knowledge that their crimes can be committed without consequence," said Jouanneau.