PBS affliated WNET-TV Dumps Denial Panel..

After a world wide campaign launched by American-Armenian community to protest againt the intended broadcasting of a pre-taped 25 min. discussion panel in which deniers of the Armenian Genocide would have the chance to publicize the Turkish government's denial on American National T.V.

For weeks Armenians were protesting, signing petitions [collecting around 16,000 signatures today] , sending emails to the PBS and to their Members of Congress, and recentely rallying in New York in front of the offices of WNET-TV to urge the PBS affiliate not to broadcast a discussion panel this April featuring deniers of the Armenian Genocide.

Yesterday, PBS affiliated WNET-TV decided not to air a panel discussion, "It was an editorial decision," said Stella Giammasi, vice president and director of communications at WNET, Channel 13 . After screening the discussion, Giammasi said, WNET officials determined it "did not add anything to the documentary." AP reported.

U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, who joined others at a protest outside WNET's office in Manhattan on Saturday, applauded the move. PBS, Channel 13, they do some of the best, most independent, thorough programming you can imagine on important issues," he said. "They made a decision here that protects that reputation and doesn't tarnish it."

That was the first step, and it was a "good" one ....but we should continue.