CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING FUNDS RIGHTWING GROUP'S DOCUMENTARY
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JOHN MCASLIN, WASHINGTON TIMES - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
has awarded a grant to veteran Washington broadcaster and former
Ambassador Richard W. Carlson, vice chairman of the Foundation for the
Defense of Democracies, to develop a television documentary series
examining the global war on terrorism. Mr. Carlson says the series,
co-produced with FDD senior fellow Barbara Newman, will explore
intelligence and special-operations efforts to fight terrorism here and
abroad. One segment will investigate the terror group Hezbollah and its
activities in more than a dozen American cities. The grant was awarded
under PBS' America at a Crossroads initiative, which will provide up to
$20 million over the next three years to those who wish to develop and
broadcast films on the challenges America faces in the wake of September
11. A former ambassador under President Reagan, Mr. Carlson is a past
director of Voice of America and was president and CEO of the CPB
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