{"id":963,"date":"2013-05-27T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=963"},"modified":"2016-01-17T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T14:47:12","slug":"unc-tv-counterprogrammed-innocence-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"UNC-TV counterprogrammed &#8216;Innocence Lost&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/130527Howe.jpg\" alt=\"130527Howe\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>May 27, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Recent revelations about billionaire David Koch\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/05\/27\/130527fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all\" target=\"_blank\">influence on the airing of an unflattering PBS documentary<\/a>\u00a0bring to mind how UNC-TV showed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=816\">similar deference<\/a>\u00a0to the accusing parents in the Little Rascals case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Although a roundtable arranged by New York station WNET to follow the Koch-critical \u201cPark Avenue\u201d excluded filmmaker Alex Gibney, that discussion at least offered viewers a range of viewpoints about income inequality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">By contrast, in 1993 UNC-TV director Tom Howe said he agreed with parents that \u201cInnocence Lost: The Verdict\u201d was unbalanced and barred defense attorney Mike Spivey from participating in the discussion afterward. (I requested a copy of the program, but the station said it was unable to find one.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In 1997, UNC-TV gave prosecutor Nancy Lamb and parent Susan Small time on \u201cNorth Carolina NOW\u201d to discuss the decision to drop the last charges in Little Rascals. \u201cBoth responded with long, rather unfocused answers,\u201d Current magazine observed, \u201cand the interview concluded without a single follow-up question&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 27, 2013 Recent revelations about billionaire David Koch\u2019s\u00a0influence on the airing of an unflattering PBS documentary\u00a0bring to mind how UNC-TV showed\u00a0similar deference\u00a0to the accusing parents in the Little Rascals case. Although a roundtable arranged by New York station WNET to follow the Koch-critical \u201cPark Avenue\u201d excluded filmmaker Alex Gibney, that discussion at least offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}