PBS letter to editor 2006

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Your column, while providing interesting background information, completely misses the point that thousands of Armenians have made to your station. You are giving airtime to people who deny a genocide which, as you have shown and agree, is accepted to have taken place. You would never, ever have a couple of Neo-Nazis sitting on a panel with Holocaust scholars arguing that there was no Holocaust. You are giving them legitimacy whether you intend to or not. You are giving them a chance, in a few minutes of airtime to make allegations that would require scholarly texts to rebut, something nobody could hope to accomplish during an on-the-air panel. Freedom of speech is the right of a person to say something. Justin McCarthy has the right to say what he likes, but when you put him on PBS, you have instantly given him something he does not deserve: credibility.

Raffi Kojian

https://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2006/04/the_ombudsmans_mailbag_4.html