Will Malven
6/11/2005
It appears that others, besides your humble writer, have
detected a very mild slant to the left in the broadcasts from PBS (Public
Broadcasting System) and NPR (National Public Radio). Someone has opened up the doors and windows
at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting aired out the programming room and
let a little sunlight in.
Washington Post is alarmed that some modicum of balance is
being restored to programming on PBS and NPR.
Thank God! It’s about time that
the Federal Government took a long hard look at the way in which taxpayer money is being spent on those
two branches of the DNC. For as long as
I can remember, PBS and NPR have been bastions of Liberal, anti-American
propaganda. Programs like “Frontline”
and “The McNeil-Lehrer News Hour” have presented some of the most biased
documentaries and news coverage on the airwaves. Shows like “Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser,”
which might present a pro-capitalist point of view, have been dropped. In the esteemable Mr. Rukeyser’s own description
of the events, he said that he had been “ambushed” by PBS. .
Of all of the “scallywags” (sorry, but I watched Pirates of
the Caribbean last night) seen on PBS
programs, Bill Moyers has been the most worst, and most heinous. Most of his shows take the vilest sort of
lies, swirl them around with bits of truth, and then regurgitate them to the
audiences under the guise of “documentaries.”
A closer description would be the nouveau
term “mockumentary” as their resemblance to actual events is something along
the lines of “This Is Spinal Tap,” Rob Reiner’s masterful look at an aging
heavy metal band. Moyers bias has been
so extreme that it often exceeds my own very high tolerance of things Left.
Of course I could have predicted that this scrutiny and
reordering of the Lefts most sacred cow of liberal propaganda would not be
taken well by such left-wing news organs as the Washington Post. Nor would I expect them to understand these
actions, except as a “take over” by conservatives to slant the programming to
the right. The world, in which writer
Paul Farhi and the vast majority of the entire editorial staff of the
Washington Post exist, is one in which extreme fringe left-wing thought passes
for normal. Anyone moderately left of
center is a “middle of the roader,” and anyone in the middle is an “arch-conservative.” The remainder of America, roughly 45% of us, is
“extreme right-wing ideologues.”
It has always vexed me that I could not, in good conscience
contribute to my local PBS station (KUHT) because for every wonderful science
or history program I saw, I would see two or three extreme (to my mind) left
wing presentations on American culture.
Perhaps now, I will be able to enjoy such programs (and support them) as
NOVA and Mystery without getting an ulcer.
I will wait and see if anything of significance is accomplished.
Until then, at least I can be hopeful.
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