Bushification is bringing PBS and NPR to heel

[True_Blue]

The conservative attack on independent journalism has begun to spread, as it was bound to do sooner or later, to public radio and television.

Political appointees are filling an increasing number of key positions, jeopardizing the ability of public broadcasting to continue providing its singular contribution to the nation's mix of reporting and commentary, a contribution marked by its depth and by its willingness to take on topics commercial broadcasters shrug off.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting oversees PBS television and National Public Radio. By congressional act, it is chartered to provide ''maximal protection from extraneous interference . . . '' For ''extraneous'' read ''political.'' That was the law's plain intent.

But creeping Bushification is instead bringing PBS and NPR to heel - in the name, of course, of ''balance.''
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_2766490

[necso]

1. Nice piece. /nt

[Erika]

2. I quit my donations to PBS with a statement

that I won't support a Faux News 2.

[funflower]

3. That's what they want you to do. They don't care whether they

Bushify PBS or kill it outright. Either way, they win.

[Erika]

4. I see your point but

those are here to remember when PBS performed an enlightened view.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. The money you send...

goes to your local station, and I'm not sure what good further starving it will do.

PBS will most likely outlive the present administration, and you can only have a voice in its resurrection if you help keep it alive for now.

[Erika]

8. PBS exists now as an extension of Faux News

in this red state. If it dies, it dies. And who will mourn it?

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. But it's ok, because god is on bush's side and bush is always right

so there isn't any need for opposition, we will all be safer and happier this way.
:crazy:

[gumby]

7. I've really, really wanted to like PBS/NPR

But I just haven't been able to do it for several years.

In fact, I think they've been (with very few exceptions) handmaidens to the BushCo takeover of this country.

I fully support PUBLIC broadcasting; however, I don't think PBS nor NPR represent that ideal.

(btw, I used to $upport them)

[funflower]

9. I think it's best to just turn off the TV entirely and get your news from

some other source.