Does anyone have info on PBS, NPR and are they being compromised?

[DuaneBidoux]

I know there was some controversy recently about an appt. to some top post at either PBS, or NPR. Repukes were saying they're liberal (meaning they actually tell all sides of the story), can someone post links, etc. on this topic. Any info is appreciated.

[acmejack]

1. Here are some

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=13

http://www.prwatch.org/node/3677

[DuaneBidoux]

2. Can you send me to any "sub-links" on the first link?

The first link simply leads me to a wide array of other links on many topics.

thanks.

[havocmom]

3. Google up Bill Moyers recent speech

it's a doozy on the subject

[Zan_of_Texas]

4. here are some.

Bill Moyers Fights Back

by John Nichols
Blog, at The Nation
posted 5/15/05
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=2484

Bill Moyers is not taking attacks by Bush Administration allies on public broadcasting in general and his journalism in particular sitting down.

"I should put my detractors on notice," declared the veteran journalist who stepped down in January as the host of PBS's NOW With Bill Moyers, who recently turned 70. "They might compel me out of the rocking chair and into the anchor chair."

Moyers closed the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis on Sunday with his first public response to the revelation that White House allies on the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have secretly been holding PBS in general -- and his show in particular -- to a partisan litmus test.

"I simply never imagined that any CPB chairman, Democrat or Republican, would cross the line from resisting White House pressure to carrying it out for the White House. And that's what (CPB chair) Kenneth Tomlinson has been doing." MORE excellent

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PBS Scrutiny Raises Political Antennas

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 22, 2005; Page C01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8067-2005Apr21.html

Liberal commentator Bill Moyers is out on PBS stations. Buster the animated rabbit is under a cloud of suspicion. And right-wing yakkers from the Wall Street Journal editorial page have been handed their own public-television chat show.

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From December 23, 2003:
<http://www.commoncause.org/news/printable.cfm?ArtID=270>

Excerpts:
The Bush Administration has rewarded two major Republican donors with seats on the nine-member board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Cheryl Halpern and Gay Hart Gaines and their respective families have contributed more than $816,000 to Republican causes over the past 14 years.

snip

During her confirmation hearing in November, Halpern indicated that she would welcome giving CPB board members the authority to intervene in program content when they felt a program was biased. Gaines was an ardent supporter of Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA), who as House Speaker in 1994 proposed cutting all federal assistance to public TV.