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Stop the Church: Issues and Outrage
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"On Friday, September 6, 1991, KCET aired the controversial 23 minute documentary, 'Stop the Church' within the context of a 90-minute special. Culminating three weeks of intense, 'fish-bowl' journalism, the program explored the issues and outrage generated when PBS's P.O.V. series first scheduled, then withdrew STC...an independently produced video that chronicles a 1989 demonstration by ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition Unleash Power) and WHAM (Women's Health Action Mobilization) against Cardinal John O'Connor at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York city. "Amidst Picketing at KCET, threatened boycotts of the station and the proposed 90 minute special by all interested parties (ie: The Catholic Church and the gay & lesbian community), substantial air/ no-air debate in the print media and on radio call-in programs, Reporter/host Jeffrey Kaye Producers Martin Burns and Joseph Angier, and Executive Producer Jim Kennedy attempted to create the elements for a program that would satisfy the mandates and directions of senior station management... and the dictates of responsible journalism. Once KCET management decisions became a substantial part of the story, the in-house security was almost as inte…
Directors & creators
KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Stop the Church, John O'Connor, Jeffrey Kaye, Martin Burns, Joseph Angier, Jim Kennedy, ACT-UP, WHAM, St. Patrick's Cathedral, KCET, WNET, P.O.V., AIDS activism, censorship, Catholic Church, gay and lesbian rights
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