PBS UNDER FIRE FOR LEFT-HANG INTENTIONS
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
"Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, has repeatedly criticized public television programs as too liberal overall, and said in the interview, ‘I frankly feel at PBS headquarters there is a tone deafness to issues of tone and balance.’"
He "is aggressively pressing public television to correct what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias. . .," according to Stephen Labaton, Lorne Manly, and Elizabeth Jensen of the New York Times.
Now to the grassroots regarding PBS: All conservatives know that they can listen to only so much of PBS until they have to switch the dial. It’s a given. It’s a daily occurrence, that is, except for those conservatives who have given up totally on finding any redeeming social value in listening to PBS.
Is this some new revelation come upon regarding PBS? Anyhow, it is getting major coverage via none other than the New York Times at the start of another week. Good.
Liberals still try to do their darndest to interject that which is not proper to morally balanced conservatives. That prompted Bush "administration officials (to challenge) certain programming. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, for example, earlier this year publicly denounced a program featuring a cartoon rabbit named Buster who visited a pair of lesbian parents."
Conservatives were most pleased with Spelling’s stepping up to PBS. There was a feeling of "it’s about time somebody says something" that came to the fore. It assured morally based listeners that the Bush team was going to say something, do something, contact somebody about that which was not considered appropriate via PBS.
One individual who has really got under the skin of conservatives is Bill Moyers, the former Southern Baptist minister who apparently has left his childhood and young adult theological base for political and religious liberalism. He’s continually championed the anti-conservative postulates at every juncture possible, particularly when it comes to his broadcasting anything focusing on the Christian faith.
I would wager that most present-tense Bill Moyers listeners do not know that he once regarded himself as a "born again Christian," espousing the biblical morality without question, even preaching it from Baptist pulpits.
"It is not a shock that Mr. Moyers's work exercised Mr. Tomlinson. He is a reliable source of agitation for conservatives, who complain that ‘Now’ under Mr. Moyers (who left the show last year and was replaced by David Brancaccio) was consistently critical of Republicans and the Bush administration.
"Days after the Republicans gained control of the Senate in the 2002 elections, Mr. Moyers - an aide in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration and a former newspaper publisher who has been associated with PBS since the 1970's - said the entire federal government was ‘united behind a right-wing agenda’ that included ‘the power of the state to force pregnant women to give up control over their own lives.’"
Conservatives were most pleased to see Bill Moyers leave PBS. He was a thorn in the moral flesh. He was a brazen, though appealingly polite, nuisance to the biblically knowledgeable. It appeared the further he drifted from his own biblically based background, the more delighted he was in cozying up with any liberal who would stand alongside his leftist profile.
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"Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, has repeatedly criticized public television programs as too liberal overall, and said in the interview, ‘I frankly feel at PBS headquarters there is a tone deafness to issues of tone and balance.’"
He "is aggressively pressing public television to correct what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias. . .," according to Stephen Labaton, Lorne Manly, and Elizabeth Jensen of the New York Times.
Now to the grassroots regarding PBS: All conservatives know that they can listen to only so much of PBS until they have to switch the dial. It’s a given. It’s a daily occurrence, that is, except for those conservatives who have given up totally on finding any redeeming social value in listening to PBS.
Is this some new revelation come upon regarding PBS? Anyhow, it is getting major coverage via none other than the New York Times at the start of another week. Good.
Liberals still try to do their darndest to interject that which is not proper to morally balanced conservatives. That prompted Bush "administration officials (to challenge) certain programming. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, for example, earlier this year publicly denounced a program featuring a cartoon rabbit named Buster who visited a pair of lesbian parents."
Conservatives were most pleased with Spelling’s stepping up to PBS. There was a feeling of "it’s about time somebody says something" that came to the fore. It assured morally based listeners that the Bush team was going to say something, do something, contact somebody about that which was not considered appropriate via PBS.
One individual who has really got under the skin of conservatives is Bill Moyers, the former Southern Baptist minister who apparently has left his childhood and young adult theological base for political and religious liberalism. He’s continually championed the anti-conservative postulates at every juncture possible, particularly when it comes to his broadcasting anything focusing on the Christian faith.
I would wager that most present-tense Bill Moyers listeners do not know that he once regarded himself as a "born again Christian," espousing the biblical morality without question, even preaching it from Baptist pulpits.
"It is not a shock that Mr. Moyers's work exercised Mr. Tomlinson. He is a reliable source of agitation for conservatives, who complain that ‘Now’ under Mr. Moyers (who left the show last year and was replaced by David Brancaccio) was consistently critical of Republicans and the Bush administration.
"Days after the Republicans gained control of the Senate in the 2002 elections, Mr. Moyers - an aide in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration and a former newspaper publisher who has been associated with PBS since the 1970's - said the entire federal government was ‘united behind a right-wing agenda’ that included ‘the power of the state to force pregnant women to give up control over their own lives.’"
Conservatives were most pleased to see Bill Moyers leave PBS. He was a thorn in the moral flesh. He was a brazen, though appealingly polite, nuisance to the biblically knowledgeable. It appeared the further he drifted from his own biblically based background, the more delighted he was in cozying up with any liberal who would stand alongside his leftist profile.
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