Is this going to be an edit hatchet job or is he actually going to be in studio to respond in person?

If so, I want to see those minorities face Dawkins and explain their bigotry to his face and watch them squerm. 

Score one for the good guys!!!  Since this follows so hard upon the heels of last weeks offense, it makes me wonder if it wasn't already on the books, or if this is a response to public outcry on the afformentioned show.  Either way, it's worth watching!

I hope they read some of the hate mail they got from us!

I'll be interested to see what format this segment takes. I don't know the show very well, do they always have a panel to discuss isssues?

The reason I ask is that if the segent only shows Richards point of view, stand by for the slew of Christain responses complaining that they were underrepresented in this programme!

 ohh the Irony

I tell you what the focus should be on for all media. Now mind you when I say this I am for the free market.

The reason CNN and Fox respectively get away with slanted crap is because the viewing public does not know what they are being sold. Each side is selling the audiance what they want to hear, and not what journalism should be, which is unbias and objective.

Walter Cronkite expressed concern for years over this. It is about viewers and adverdising dollars.

I dont have a problem with that AS LONG AS THOSE who call themselves "Journalists" dont make themselves part of the agenda either way.

If you look at any cable news station the actuall "news" is tiny and only takes up 2 mins every 15 minutes. The rest of the hour is Cheerleading for a club.

I wouldnt be suprised if the Dawkings story is another package where after it is played the pannelists use Dawkings as a dart board. No different than Hanity or Howard Stern.

I'm a forum lurker, but I thought I should add it looks like they just bumped Richard Dawkins for a special report about ANNA NICOLE SMITH.

The caps are because I'm tearing the hair out of my head.

Anyone dieing weither famous or not effects someone. I am not going to say she was not important to people, oviously the people she was close to it is quite obvious and understandable.

If I died I would expect those who know me to want to mourn me. But for me to expect the world to mourn me would be absurd. 

Reporting her death is understandable. But the motif of Paula Zaun's show is about racism, not an obituary.

It is about ratings. If it bleeds it leads.

Did someone put that Dawkins story on Youtube or at least know when they'll repeat it. I just found out about it and missed it. I hope Dawkins ripped her a new one.

Some whore died so the show got put off until a later date.

 Interesting note though, Dawkins does live in an officially Christian nation where the Atheists are the majority.  So does that mean he can tell the Christians to shut up?

I just got a bulletin that said that it was pushed back to monday the 12th.

Dear Paula Zahn Now Viewer,

Please be advised that due to breaking news coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith, the program “Out in the Open: What happened to love thy neighbor” scheduled to air this evening on Paula Zahn Now has been rescheduled for Monday night, February 12.    Thank you for your interested, and for being our valued viewer.

Angelic, I got the same e-mail.  Apparently you wrote to bitch too eh? lol  To Sapient, that's awesome!  They're most controvertial ever? wow!

I got it too. But since I wasn't made aware of the subject matter of the program being delayed, I bitched them out again:

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Dear CNN Public Information,

Let me update your public information. I am not a Paula Zahn Now viewer. I've watched the show once, and in that episode, my strongly held beliefs in science and reason were completely misrepresented and were the subject of ridicule by your bigoted and completely uninformed panelists, who made remarks which, if against any other group of people, would have sparked outrage and been called prejudice.

And after voicing my complaint of your biased journalism through your website, to add insult to injury, no official apology was made either to myself personally or to the larger Atheist community on your show. Instead, all I received was an auto-response email which in know way addressed the offense, and this 2nd email, which also contains no apology. Rest assured that me and my fellow Atheists will not be watching your show until a public apology is made to the Atheist community and another panel discussion (this time consisting of an actual Atheist and individuals who actually know something about Atheism) occurs on your show.

Your friendly neighborhood Atheist,

Michael

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They just sent me another stupid email back:

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Greetings,

Thank you for letting us know you received an erroneous response to the email you sent to Paula Zahn Now.  We did experience a glitch that resulted in some of these emails generating a response from our coverage of Steve Irwin’s memorial service. Please accept our apologies for that.  This response is to let you know we have verified your original email is in the Paula Zahn Now email box, and has been read.   

We also want to make sure you know that due to breaking news coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith, the follow-up segment “Out in the Open: What Happened to Love Thy Neighbor” scheduled to air last night on Paula Zahn Now has been rescheduled for Monday night, February 12.     

Thank you for taking time to send your comments our way, and for being our valued viewer. 

Regards, 

CNN Public Information

I did NOT get an e-mail reply from them (although it may have been caught by my fliters.)

I watched that whole fucking show last night thinking 'certainly thay can't fill the whole hour with this shit...'   I was (re-)pissed.

 The new time is Mon 2/12 (Darwin Day!) Same Zahn time, same Zahn channel.

(apologies to Adam and Burt.)

LV