οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½-Americas, Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, Hellenic Congressional Caucus to Protest Characterization of Hellenes as οΏ½Laziest people on Earth,οΏ½,οΏ½racist,οΏ½ οΏ½dirty, filthy people,οΏ½ and οΏ½scammersοΏ½ on U.S. Radio Nationwide     
As part of his policy of having the N. & S. America Region of οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ respond to all unfair media attacks on the image of Hellenes in the Western Hemisphere, V.P. and Regional Coordinator Chris P. Tomaras has written to Mark Master, CEO of the Talk Radio Network (TRN), demanding an on-air apology by WKQXοΏ½s (Chicago) Erich οΏ½MancowοΏ½ Muller for a particularly anti-Greek segment during his March 16 morning radio program, which is syndicated on TRN.  The letter followed one by the Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, the Very Rev. Demetri C. Kantzavelos, who heard the segment as he arrived at his Metropolis offices on March 16.     
Tomaras wrote: οΏ½We wholeheartedly concur with [these] sentiments expressed in the recent letter to you from [Fr.] Kantzavelos:
Mr. Masters, we are not οΏ½PollyannaοΏ½sοΏ½ who do not understand the dynamics of talk radio and the essential role that sensationalistic rhetoric plays in driving audience numbers and advertising rates.  But this is not cable TV, nor satellite radio, but rather our own public airwaves.  Even you must agree, sir, that there is a point beyond which the public airwaves cannot be used to abuse the image and reputation of an entire nation, especially when they are not given an opportunity to respondοΏ½ Because given that opportunity, we would have Erich οΏ½MancowοΏ½ MullerοΏ½s listeners know, for example, that the Chicago Sun-Times cited in a recent article an international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development survey ranking of the number of hours worked per person around the world in 2003 (the last year for which data is available).  In that ranking, the U.S. ranked fourth, behind first-place Korea, second-place Greece and even behind Mexico.  If the Greeks in Greece are as οΏ½lazyοΏ½ as Mr. Muller told his millions of listeners they are, what are we Americans who rank two places behind them?

Mr. MasterοΏ½there is no end to the clever ripostes our constituents would want us to write here, nor an end to the litany of other outrages uttered by Mr. Muller against other groups, both in the U.S. and elsewhere.  But on behalf of the 1.5 million Greek Americans in the U.S., the World Council of Hellenes Abroad (οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½) must demand that the TRN undertake the following:
1. Instruct Mr. Muller to correct, on-air, his misinformation regarding the history of the Colossus of Rhodes and the Greek peopleοΏ½s role in its preservation;
2. Instruct Mr. Muller to apologize, again on-air and not just to those Americans of Greek descent, for his characteriza-tion of them and their families as οΏ½lazy,οΏ½ οΏ½dirty, filthy,οΏ½ οΏ½racistοΏ½ and οΏ½scammers.οΏ½ οΏ½
Copies of TomarasοΏ½ letter were sent to the FCC, the Hellenic Congressional Caucus and the stations that carry MullerοΏ½s syndicated program. 
To read the entire transcript of the οΏ½MancowοΏ½ radio segment, and the text of our response, please visit www.saeamerica.org

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