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"By pandering to anti-Arab hysteria," writes Eric Boehlert, "NBC, Fox News, Media General and Clear Channel radio disgraced themselves -- and ruined an innocent professor's life." University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian received death threats and lost his job after conservative Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly revived discredited, years-old allegations [6] from self-styled terrorism expert Steve Emerson [7] that Al-Arian had ties to anti-Israel terrorists.
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/13916/sheldon-rampton
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace/terrorism
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/media
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/religion
[5] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2002%2F01%2F985%2Fprime-time-smear-campaign&linkname=Prime-Time%20Smear%20Campaign
[6] http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0798/9807028.html
[7] http://www.fair.org/extra/9901/emerson.html
[8] http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/19/bubba/index.html