HITLER
VIDEO TO BE PULLED FROM CATALOG, PROCEDURES
CHANGED, TIME WARNER/SONY COMPANY ASSURES ADL
New
York, NY, September 6...In response to a
protest by the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL), a division of Time Warner
& Sony has agreed to remove a video on
Hitler from a catalog offering a
collection of "some of the greatest speeches
delivered by world leaders." Besides the words
of Adolf Hitler, The Speeches Collection
includes Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Harry
S. Truman, as well as Martin Luther King,
Jr. and Winston Churchill. The
company assured ADL that in the future it would
revise its catalog proofing process as well; the
League praised such prompt action.
Citing complaints it received, the League
wrote Time Warner, Inc. challenging the Summer
1995 Sound Exchange catalog's grouping of the
Nazi dictator with major figures of the free
world, and calling them "our nations' leaders."
ADL also questioned advertising copy which used
"the term 'nostalgia' as one reason for
purchasing videos of speeches given by the man
responsible for millions of deaths in World War
II." ADL called on Time Warner to "reconsider
the appropriateness of this promotional
approach" in the future.
Susan Hayes, Director of Customer
Service for Sound Exchange, A Time Warner &
Sony Company, said in a letter to ADL that Sound
Exchange "decided to pull the item and any
associated items from future catalogs. It is not
our intention to antagonize or offend our
customers," she continued, and "to avoid similar
errors in the future, additional proofing
processes have been implemented."
The Anti-Defamation
League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading
organization fighting anti-Semitism through
programs and services that counteract hatred,
prejudice and bigotry.
In
January 1999 the Anti-Defamation League (national director:
Abraham H Foxman, left, proudly released this news
item, on which we pass no comment. For the original click
here 
write to David Irving