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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: FAIR's Bob Grant Success Thanks in part to activists from all over the country who contacted ABC and Disney, FAIR's campaign against the bigotry of talkshow host Bob Grant has been a success. The success was not in Grant's firing from New York's WABC, the flagship of Disney/ABC's radio empire. FAIR, in fact, never called for Grant to be taken off the air--we called on Disney to publish its policy regarding on-air racial slurs, and to add anti-racist counterweights to Grant--and in any case, Grant was back on the air in little more than a week, on New York's WOR. The success, rather, has been in reaffirming the values that FAIR has insisted on from the beginning: that racial slurs and calls for violence are not a healthy part of public discourse. Our reestablishment of these standards is demonstrated by the lies Grant now feels compelled to tell about his past statements. The last straw for Disney/ABC was Grant's comment after Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's plane went down in Bosnia (4/3/96): "My hunch is [Brown] is the one survivor. I just have that hunch. Maybe it's because at heart I'm a pessimist." Grant tried to portray this remark as a momentary lapse of taste. "I never wished Ron Brown dead," Grant told Newsday (4/19/96). "The only people I've ever wished dead were Hitler, Stalin and Saddam Hussein." To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1343 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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