Bush awards two Republican donors seats on Public Broadcasting Corp board

[G_j]

CauseNET for December 30, 2003
            Public Broadcasting Under Siege!
            $800,000 buys two seats on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board!

            The Bush Administration has awarded two major Republican donors seats on the nine-member board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Bush appointees Cheryl Halpern and Gay Hart Gaines and their families have given over $800,000 to Republican causes in recent years.

            But just as troubling are the agendas that Halpern and Hart Gaines would bring to the CPB. Both have stated views or espoused causes that call into question their qualifications to service on a board whose mission is to promote and fund public television and radio programming.

            Halpern, in her confirmation hearings, indicated that she would welcome empowering the CPB board members to intervene in program content when they felt a program was biased. And, Gaines was an ardent supporter of Representative Newt Gingrich (R-GA) who, as House Speaker in 1994, proposed cutting all federal assistance to public television.
            
            Click here to find out more:
            http://www.commoncause.org/news/default.cfm?ArtID=270

[G_j]

1. kick

[radwriter0555]

2. Well then look for LOTSA documentaries on how GREAT the bush reich

is!

Oh GOODY!

[peekaloo]

3. Woo Hoo.....Today's Sesame Street is brought to you by

the number 666 and 1 John 2:18,19 -

"Children, these are the Last Days. You were told that Antichrist must come, and now several antichrists have already appeared. We know from this, that these are the Last Days. Those rivals of Messiah came out of our own number, but they had never really belonged. If they had belonged, they would have stayed with us, but they left us, to prove that no one of them ever belonged to us."



wubba wubba woo

:-(

[jmowreader]

8. Oh come ON! That will never happen!

They can't talk bad about the Bush boy!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. I'll bet the first order of business will be cancelling Bill Moyers NOW

too critical of the regime.

[KeepItReal]

7. Second order of business to cancel FRONTLINE

These guys are so f-ing transparent.

[Ernesto]

5. Oh great!

When does Rush get his show?.... Quote from my idiot fundy father in law: "PBS= bad, too much evolution".

[spanone]

6. Bush & Co. would love nothing better than to do away with pub broadcasting

many of these programs are virtually unchained by corporate sponsorship and therefore actually report truths. This is dangerous to the bush take on democracy.

[truthspeaker]

9. they've already got Jim Lehrer whoring for them

and some PBS stations have actually broadcast an "Intelligent Design" video masquerading (badly) as a science show. Even Frontline has not been as hard on Bush as I would like (still waiting for a show about the 2000 Florida disenfranchisement).