A.H.M.P. Media Alert!

• Media Alert: Media Accuracy Group Calls For Andy Rooney's Dismissal For Racist Remarks Against Greeks and Immigrants (posted June 2001)

• Andy Rooney issues on-air correction and apology on May 20th "60 Minutes" broadcast concerning prior statement that Byzantine artists were Turkish (posted May 2001)

• Protest The Greek Government's Attempt to Deny Genocide of Asia Minor's Greek Population (posted March 2001)

• Violence threatens Armenian Genocide Monument in Netherlands (posted April 25, 2000)

• McLaughlin Group host chooses Ataturk as "person of the millennium", misinforms that Turkey is a "western parliamentary democracy" (posted January 8, 2000)

• The Chicago Tribune: anatomy of a successful protest; how collective action can make our voices be heard (posted December 16, 1999)
  -- Click here to view the original Chicago Tribune protest materials (posted December 1, 1999)

• Washington Post, Boston Globe, AP declare open season on Greeks (posted November 10, 1999)

• Action Alert: Statue of Ataturk to be erected in Thessaloniki (posted August 6, 1999)

• Community Urged to Protest Against A Nuclear Turkey (posted June 17, 1999)

• Take a moment to e-mail a protest to The National Review and its advertisers for its Senior Editor's misograecist bigotry (Posted June, 99).
  • National Review (NR) protest material
  • AHMP's letter to The National Review
  • AHMP's letter to NR's advertisers
  • Codes of Journalism Ethics Violated by David Klinghoffer
  • Letters to the Editor published and Klinghoffer's response
    

• ALERT: Blockbuster movie being produced about Kemal Ataturk based on biography by Lord Kinross. Protest necessary against making of film to avert dissemination of false historical revisionism, including genocide denial and the rewriting of Greek, Armenian and Turkish history. Actor Antonio Banderas rejects role after protest (Posted 7/98).
  • AHMP press release: Banderas praised for rejecting film denying genocide, 7/17/98
  • Protest making of Ataturk film
    
  • Articles concerning Antonio Banderas' rejecting Ataturk role in film
    
  • The Asia Minor Holocaust of 1922 - Four articles from the New York Times
    

• Yet another travel book harboring an anti-Hellenic racist animus.
  • "Europe Through the Back Door" by Rick Steves (1994),

• Misinformation in the guise of a travel guide.
  • "A Traveller's History of Greece," 2nd Ed. 1995,

• Ravings of a misograecist bigot: well-known travel writer Paul Theroux's "Pillars of Hercules"
  • "The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of The Mediterranean", March 1996

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