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Charles Kurzman's article on the April 26 protest against PLO information chief Abdul-Rachmun should be commended for accurately reporting the venomous words of the speaker. The story, however, failed to present a balanced picture of the protest...
Accurate and unbiased reporting, particularly in regard to matters about which people have passionate concern, is the journalist's highest responsibility. We believe that in several important ways the Crimson's coverage of the visit of Hassan Abdul Rahman to the Harvard campus last week reflected an abdication of that responsibility...
...questioning the "logic" of identifying the newsworthy aspect as having been the demonstration by Zionist students rather than the event which provoked it. And without quibbling over numerous minor inaccuracies in the article, let me say simply that in my conversation with Ms. Bernstein several days prior to Mr. Abdul Rahman's talk I had painstakingly listed for her the eight student organizations co-sponsoring the event, and provided her with the names of responsible officers for some of them. One would expect that a statement of interest by such a broad and diverse coalition of student organizations in hearing...
...Since the considerably better subsequent article in The Crimson recognized the existence of this diversity but still got its content wrong, let me reproduce part of the text of our statement read to a Tuesday press conference, and re-it-crated almost verbatim in our evening introduction of Mr. Abdul Rahman, speaking of the reasons for the later's invitation...
...deeply distressed by issues brought to light by the recent invitation of Hassan Abdul-Rahman, director of the PLO in Washington, by various Black, third world and Arab student organizations to speak at the Law School Tuesday. I question neither his right to speak nor his right to a platform at Harvard, despite the repugnance with which I view his position...