06/07/05

Public broadcasting is the latest front in the Republican majority's assault on the 'liberal' media. After years of trying to destroy public broadcasting from without, right-wing Republicans are now trying to do so from within, by planting aggressive conservatives on the board and staff. These people have no qualms about destroying the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's function as a 'heat shield' from governmental influence. Rather, they seem bent on turning public broadcasting into a heat source -- a censorship center. This may be the most effective tactic yet in the longstanding struggle to kill public broadcasting." [editor's note: It is significant that nobody from "this side of the aisle" was complaining when public TV and radio were essentially lapdogs for the incumbents. What goes around ... - SAT]

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2139/

from In These Times, by Jerry Starr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp