Look at the list of sponsors for the "independent" NewsHour on PBS......

[marmar]

Corporate Sponsors

Chevron
BNSF Railway
Bank of America
Intel
EarthGrains
Monsanto
Pacific Life


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/funders.html


:puke:

[gimama]

1. I noticed monsanto tonight

& nearly fell out.
The other corp. sponsors I'd noticed before, but tonight's list sickened me.
I'll email NewsHour, about this, but doubt I'll be watching much in future.

This "trend" of corp. bad guys infiltrating ALL aspects of American LIFE is disgusting..
& dangerous..

PBS!?!

[bobbolink]

2. Why do you think the reich wing wanted PBS funding cut out?

[crikkett]

9. It's been that way for years.

Just saying.

[unkachuck]

3. you would think....

....the NewsHour would be embarrassed having a list of sponsors like that....is there nothing money can't buy?

[xchrom]

4. Recommend -- I guess it's ok to list the corporate sponsors of PBS

And logically speculate about their influence
but not list the sponsers of certain popular elected officials
and speculate about that influence.

[glinda]

5. MN. Public Radios biggest sponsor right now is the Chamber of Commerce.

Our Government has no one to blame but themselves when they loose to Republicans.

[U4ikLefty]

6. We bow & kiss the feet of our glorious Corporate Sponsors!!!

Oh yeah, and "Viewers Like You"...almost forgot.

[RufusTFirefly]

7. Sorry you're only just noticing this

PBS and NPR were taken over by multinationals years ago (Thank you, Newt Gingrich). Although I love Bill Moyers, I rarely watch PBS (or any TV) anymore. And as for NPR, we call it National Petroleum Radio. (Either that, or National rePublican Radio). Game over.

[a kennedy]

11. That Neal Conan shows his bias a lot......used to love NPR

but when he became the anointed one, I really quit listening to it, now I just have it on for background noise.....

[EFerrari]

8. Lovely.

:puke:

[mulsh]

10. spend some time paying attention to the talking heads they

feature. I've seen empty suits from Heritage and American Enterprise billed as "opposing views." at least the have a marginal sense of humor.
I only watch the newshour for the short, daily news segment. I really started noticing the rightward slide about 5 years ago. right around the time the Bush admin appointed Republican party operatives to head the Corp for Public Broadcasting. Even their "liberal" guy Sheilds strikes me as a minor and inarticulate tool.

[L0oniX]

12. I quit watching that years ago. FreeSpeechTv and Link Tv are the only tv outlets with real news.