%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Editorial Board of CBS Incident Committee %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Friday, June 3, 1994 (No. 2) ============================================================================= *** Part I. General Information *** ============================================================================= Table of Contents # of Lines ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Possible Legal Assistance on CBS Incident ............................ 17 2. Some CBS phone numbers ............................................... 72 3. CBS Is In Bad Shape .................................................. 108 4. Advocacy contacts .................................................... 120 5. Internet Connections ................................................. 160 ============================================================================= ---------------------------------------------- 1. Possible Legal Assistance on CBS Incident ---------------------------------------------- _From: Qingsong Zhang The following is a list of possible legal assistance on the CBS incident. We need to contact these groups. Zhang Qingsong IFCSS Newsletter Editor-in-Chief ============================================================= *** WEST COAST *** Asian Pacific Legal Center 1010 Flower St. LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 ph: (213) 748-2022 Asian Law Caucus 468 Bush St. 3rd Fl. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118 (94108?) ph: (415) 391-1655 Break the Silence Coalition Against Anti-Asian Violence P.O.Box 2165 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 ph: (415) 982-2959 Intergroup Clearinghouse 995 Market St. rm 1114 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103 ph: (415) 896-1355 service: assistance in reporting, information/referral *** EAST COAST *** Asian Americans United 801 Arch Street PHILADELPHIA, PA 19107 ph: (215) 925-1539 Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV) 191 East 3rd St. NEW YORK, NY 10009 ph: (212) 473-6485 U.S. Department Civil Rights Division call (202) 514-2000 to report incidents involving servious injuries or property damage U.S. Justice Department's Community Relations Service Federal Hate Violence Hotline (800) 347-HATE call to report incidents involving physical or verbal harassment ------------------------------------- 2. Some CBS phone numbers ------------------------------------- _From: XIAO@scri.fsu.edu I have made phone calls to the following CBS offices. 1. CBS switchboard: (212) 975-4321. At this phone number you can inquire phone numbers of any CBS personnel, you'll be transfered to the Communication's Department where they will find the phone numbers for you. You can also ask to register your complaint, you will then be transfered to recording machines to make a recording. 2. CBS Evening News: (212) 975-3691 Here at Evening News you can talk to a person who takes down the complaint about the CBS report slandering Chinese. You might be advised by the person to write a letter, but since you already called, you should get her to write down whatever you have to say and pass it to the guilty party. 3. Eric Ober's office: (212) 975-6581 Mr. Ober is the president of CBS Evening News, vice president of CBS and he is responsible to authorize the news program (all news programs) to air. 4. Connie Chung's office: (212) 975-7192 Ms. Connie Chung is not only the person who read the report. She came up with the original idea. She and the Producer Tom Anderson went to China to meet Premier Li Peng to produce this news piece. Another Executive Producer of this program is Eric Sorenson. ------------------------------------------------- 3. CBS Is In Bad Shape. -------------------------------------------------- _From: hua7291@med2s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu (Mi Mi) Time Mag.: CBS's stock went down 11%. Eight station were aquired by Fox The eight are> Dallas, Detroit, Atlanta,Cleveland, Tampa, Phoenix,Milwaukee, and Austin TX. CBS is in bad shape. Mi Mi ------------------------------------- 4. Advocacy contacts ------------------------------------- _From: Two groups come to mind that might be of help in your advocacy: Asian American Journalists Association 1765 Sutter St. Rm. 1000 San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 346-2051 One of their concerns is how Asian Americans are portrayed in the media. It is ironic that Connie Chung is a recent member of the associa- tion. Another group that specifically deals with media portrayals (both positive and negative) is the Media Action Network of Asian Americans (213) 486-4434 This group is based in L.A. and has been a vigilant watchdog of cartoons, statements by non-Asians in the entertainment industry, movie images, radio comments, and advertisements. Don't reinvent the wheel! Link up with these groups and others to learn tactics and strategy (and to gain support, of course). THE_One and only! tfeng@hel4.brl.mil ------------------------------------------------- 5. Internet Connections -------------------------------------------------- _From: YANG Chang-Qing Here is what I have so far: president@whitehouse.gov !President vice.president@whitehouse.gov !Vice President nightly@nbc.com !NBC Nightly News bwreader@mgh.com !Business Week Magazine 71154.1006@compuserve.com !U.S. News & World Report Magazine %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Executive Editor of CBS Incident Committee: Miao Ye % % Sign on/off at listserv@ifcss.org, with mailbody as: % % sub fcbs-l Firstname Lastname, or signoff fcbs-l % % Post at fcbs-l@ifcss.org % % Anonymous ftp at ifcss.org:/ifcss/cbs % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%