For now ‘Frontline’ doesn’t flinch

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It’s the last new “Frontline” for the season, and if the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had his way, it would probably be the last “Frontline” until the Rapture.

Fortunately Ken Tomlinson has little influence over television’s gutsiest news program — for now. But his comments that NPR and PBS are in sore need of “objectivity” suggest he’d whack the solid, no-nonsense reporting on “Frontline” in a heartbeat if he could.

Take tonight’s program (at 9 on KCPT and 8 on KTWU). It’s a tough-minded look at the role of private contractors in Iraq. “You’d run into these people in town with really kind of a bad attitude and there was nothing you could do about it,” Marine Col. Thomas Hammes (Ret.) told “Frontline,” adding that the locals “knew quite clearly that if one of these people shot an Iraqi, they were not subject to any law.”

“Frontline” reserves special scrutiny for the activities of KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton (former CEO: Dick Cheney) that has to date done $12 billion worth of business serving as “the military’s lifeline.” KBR operates an enormous base in the Sunni triangle and, as such, is poised to become a permanent occupant there — a notion that didn’t sit well with some people “Frontline” spoke to.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/11941311.htm

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1. Isn't Cheney is still on Halliburton's payroll?

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