Article: M is for Moronic (That joke of PBS bias study)

[Ian_rd]

This is a good read - factually damning and damn funny to boot:

M is for Moronic
Max Blumenthal
The Nation

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... Tomlinson selected Fred Mann, a conservative activist with no credentials as an expert on journalism, broadcasting or media issues, who was obscure even within right-wing circles. Mann was paid $14,700 in taxpayer money to monitor a sampling of PBS shows and file a report to Tomlinson ...

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The Mann report reads as if dictated by Cookie Monster while chewing on a mouthful of lead paint chips. Names of famous political figures and celebrities are chronically misspelled. PBS guests are categorized by labels--"anti-DeLay," "neutral," "x"--for often bewildering reasons. Mann appears to have spent endless hours monitoring programs with no political content, gathering such insights as that Ray Charles was blind.

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Read the whole article:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050718&s=blumenthal