An Arab American group is calling on Muslims in the United States and “other people of conscience” to contact ABC-TV news anchor Peter Jennings and thank him for his honest and fair coverage of events in the Middle East. “Honest, even-handed coverage of the Palestinians is difficult to find in American media,” an official with American Muslims for Jerusalem said. Jennings has recently come under attack for his purported anti-Israel bias in his nightly evening news show.
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