CounterPunch plug on "Law and Order"

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Fri May 26 10:14:16 PDT 2000


Nope but thought I'd take this opportunity to announce that the front page story of the current CounterPunch issue is mine:

Killer Doc Gets Fifty Grand : Liberals Award Kevorkian

It is Night of the Living Dead for sure.

Marta

J Cullen wrote:


> Did anybody else notice that CounterPunch got a plug in NBC's "Law 'N
> Order" Wednesday night? In the story, the cops were looking over the
> mail received by the father of an American kid who had been killed in
> Chile after Pinochet took over, after the father was found dead. The
> cops found several magazines, whose titles were composites of lefty
> periodicals but the only one that had a real title was CounterPunch.
> (None of the titles resembled "Left Business Observer, or
> "Progressive Populist", for that matter.) I wonder if CounterPunch
> had to pay for product placement or if they have a reader among the
> show's writers. (The Law 'N Order folks ended up prosecuting a
> retired Chilean colonel who was in NY for medical treatment for the
> murder of the kid, under the pretext that the murder was part of a
> conspiracy that started in New York.)
>
> -- Jim Cullen

-- Marta Russell author Los Angeles, CA Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract http://www.commoncouragepress.com/russell_ramps.html



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