Bomb Threat Follows Racist Talk on Annan
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From Times Wire Reports
A high-profile national broadcaster, under fire for using racist epithets to describe U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, was forced off the air by a bomb threat. Police evacuated the Auckland radio studio of NewstalkZB 15 minutes before Paul Holmes’ breakfast news and talk show was to end.
Holmes apologized after his Wednesday comments and insisted he was not a racist. “I should not have said what I did. It was tongue-in-cheek. It was the shock end of the spectrum; it was a bit mad probably,” he said.
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