PBS Chief Rejects Liberal Bias Allegations

[wicket]

Repukes, get your hands off PBS!!!! :grr:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050524/ap_en_bu/pbs_mitchell

The president of the Public Broadcasting Service on Tuesday rejected criticism by conservatives that public TV is guilty of liberal bias, and she offered a strong defense of PBS' Bill Moyers, a target of right-wing wrath.

"PBS does not belong to any one political party," Pat Mitchell said.

Mitchell's remarks at the National Press Club follow the disclosure that Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, hired a consultant to keep track of guests' political views on a program hosted by Moyers, who was White House press secretary during the Johnson administration.

"The facts do not support the case he makes" for political bias, Mitchell said of Tomlinson. Surveys show that the overwhelming majority of the public does not perceive bias in public broadcasting, she said.

[sam sarrha]

1. they will never stop.. they will crawl up your ass hole looking for

Anti-Fascist sentiment..evidence of bias or whatever schizophrenic hallucination is popular that day..

I am serious.. these people are mentally ill.

[EST]

2. Correction-

Did not perceive bias-until they installed "Pucker" KKarlson and WSJ hacks, dumped Moyers etc. Now they have begun the fertilization of the right wing cancer.
The "liberal" left merely appears that way to the insane neocon dips because they (the L L) generally hang a little closer to the truth.

[Piperay]

3. Too late...

they have already taken it over.

[keopeli]

4. Unfortunately, you are correct

I stopped listening to and supporting PBS and NPR in 2003 when they failed to report acurately on the actions leading up to the Iraq War. That was the last straw, but it followed many other 'sins' for a public broadcasting station. They, too, were and are a part of the megaphone of propoganda.

Very sad, but true.

[valis]

12. Yup... There are a few shows I still love: This American Life, for instanc

[Moderator]

5. kick to combine

[Judi Lynn]

6. PBS president says network is independent

May 25, 2005


PBS president says network is independent
Public television chief rejects complaints about a liberal agenda.


By Matea Gold
Los Angeles Times


WASHINGTON -- PBS President Pat Mitchell said Tuesday that the taxpayer-supported network is independent and free of political bias, rejecting Republican arguments that there is a need for more conservative programming to balance the content of public television.

In her first public response to criticism that PBS suffers from a liberal reputation, Mitchell cited polls that have repeatedly found that a majority of Americans view the network as objective and fair. She vowed to shrug off any attempts at political influence from either side of the spectrum.
(snip)

Her address amounted to a rebuttal of remarks by Kenneth Tomlinson, the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private nonprofit charged with distributing federal money to public television and radio stations.

The CPB chairman has made no secret of the fact that he thinks the Public Broadcasting System has a liberal reputation. His actions have sparked a flurry of protests from liberal advocacy and public interest groups, who are gathering petitions calling for his resignation and asking CPB to stay out of programming decisions.
(snip/)

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/NEWS06/505250451/1012

[highnooner]

7. Uh, ok

:rofl:

[BlueEyedSon]

9. you took the ROFL right out of my mouth....

[Kolesar]

8. I saw most of her presentation on Cspan yesterday evening

I am glad she is speaking out.

[wicket]

10. me too

We gotta fight these people tooth and nail!

[mandomom]

11. And

we fight them truth and nail. ;)

[Arkansas Granny]

13. The problem seems to be

that unless you enthusiastically support * and his agenda, you are a liberal. About the only news source the right wing does not consider biased is Fox News.

It's that old "either you're for us or you're for the terrorists" mindset. If any facts (or opinions) are aired which are not favorable to *, it is deemed to be treasonous.

[hughee99]

14. "An overwhelming majority of the public..."

No offense to the fine programming on PBS, which I sometimes enjoy, but an "overwhelming majority of the public" never watches PBS.