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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (9517)4/22/2005 1:04:02 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
VAGUE PBS RUMBLINGS

The Corner
[Tim Graham]

Paul Farhi reports for the Washington Post that PBS officials that wish to remain anonymous (possibly because it's easy to show they're partisan Democrats) are fussing that partisan Democrats aren't getting as many jobs or shows right now at PBS. Only in the liberal media is it distressing news that an agency tends to lean more Republican when a Republican is in the White House, but in the strange land of public broadcasting, every tilt to the right is seen as a gross violation of the First Amendment, which must have a clause I haven't seen that includes the precious right of conservatives to subsidize liberal viewpoints, which shall never be infringed.

The worst part of the story -- ostensibly focused on whether PBS has a liberal bias -- is seeking out no media watchdog groups to fight over the evidence. (Hey, at least some of us were in the office yesterday.) Farhi could have at least noted that since Bill Moyers left the weekly "Now" grind, the show does continue to air with the forgettable David Brancaccio as host, albeit for a half-hour instead of an hour. "Now" is still a loaded propaganda show. Farhi does note Tucker Carlson's show is finished, so that balances out the missing "Now" half-hour. The Wall Street Journal pundit show should be considered a right-leaning version of "Washington Week in Review," which liberals would never count as a biased show, but any conservative who can read a transcript would differ. On balance, PBS is still quite unbalanced.

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