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Friday, January 30, 2004

The Hutton reported exonerated Tony Blair’s government over the death of Dr. David Kelly, while raising questions about the BBC’s integrity in reporting. Two top BBC executives have quit since Lord Hutton released his findings last Wednesday. Also, Sharpton debates in South Carolina, black film in flux, and who is grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani?

Oh Carolina

Kevin Gray contributing editor to Black News, writes for Counterpunch,member of the South Carolina Progressive Network and former campaign manager for Al Sharpton in South Carolina discusses the Democratic Presidential Debate in South Carolina and Lisa DePaulo Writer for GQ magazine
who spent 6 months with the Dean ...

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Reverend Al

Jamal E. Watson contributing editor to the Amsterdam News
on Al Sharpton's campaign in South Carolina

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Minority Report

George Alexander author, Why We Make Movies (Harlem Moon, 2003) on the lack funding for black cinema and Stacy Spikes Founder, CEO UrbanWorld Group
on the funding of independent black film and the politics of awards ceremonies

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Call Me Ali

Juan Coleprofessor of modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author, Sacred Space And Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam (I.B. Tauris, 2002)
explains the rise and vision of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani

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Pushing the Hutton

Emma Duncan Britain Editor for the Economist(UK)
on the implications of the Hutton report on the BBC and 11:41:00-11:58:59 Tim Gopsill Editor of The Journalist Magazine and press officer for the National Union of Journalists
defends the BBC's journalistic standards

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