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Respond to ABC with your own '20/20' vision

Posted by Tiglath (Guest) - Tuesday, November 30 2004, 23:29:45 (CET)
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Dear Friend,

I thought you might be interested in this Human Rights Campaign
e-activism campaign. If you go to the URL below you can check
out what is at stake and send your own message directly to the
relevant decision makers. Here's what I said:

"Your one-hour 20/20 show that purported to explore the motives
in the murder of Matthew Shepard did not meet the standards
people have come to expect from 20/20 and ABC News.

You did not put forth a single piece of solid evidence to back
your assertion that drugs were the central cause of Matthew
Shepard's murder You relied on a collection of interviews by
sources lacking in credibility, and you ignored critical facts
and sources as you attempted to advance your revisionist claim
that anti-gay bias played no role in the murder.

Please meet with GLAAD and the Matthew Shepard Foundation with
the goal of offering viewers a more thorough and accurate
examination of the evidence that led America to understand that
anti-gay bias played a central role in the murder of Matthew
Shepard. Provide an opportunity for credible spokespeople to
take the facts in this case to your viewers.

Throughout your segment, you contrast the words "mythology" and
"truth", "legend" and "fact." There are indeed facts in this
case, and the messengers of those facts are credible experts
backed by recorded confessions and public records. You
deliberately chose to turn a blind eye to these facts, and in so
doing misled your viewers. This was not only irresponsible but
also malicious and discriminatory.

Please meet with GLAAD and Judy Shepard, and give your viewers
the opportunity to hear the facts surrounding the murder of
Matthew Shepard".
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In response to a posting on an ABC website I said:

"Dont' be so dissappointed. The corporate media giants are just
rewarding the many people who hate or fear gays (and lesbians)
for having supported the corporate media's candidate for
president.
I beleive that the piece revisiting the Matthew Shepherd case
was much more than just irresponsible. I beleive that it was a
carefully timed, willful, insidious, deliberate and maliciously
intentional attack by the corporate media on the gay and lesbian
community as a whole. I see it as an effort to discredit the gay
and lesbian community's need for protection against hate crimes,
to deny the fact that the gay and lesbian community is still the
frequent target and victim of all sorts of discrimination, and
to facilitate the gradual erosion of the many gains the U.S. gay
and lesbian community has achieved over the last 3-4 decades.
It is also a prime example of the false "sacredness" assigned to
race/ethnicity as opposed to sexual orientation when it comes to
the issues of discrimination and civil rights. Had the case
involved the black victim of white/anglos it would never have
been revisited or revised the way the Matthew Shepherd case was
in the 20/20 piece".

http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/campaign/2020_response?rk=s7zTOgS1pjYFW

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