PBS continued...

I wrote every Senator and Congressman that didn't have a redirecting "my secretary does the responses" form on their website. They overturned it, though, but not without a nasty redistribution of power. Because of PBS's honesty (which, by default, criticizes the current administration), the GOP demanded that they were too liberal and has appointed a new leader: Patricia de Stacy Harrison (R), a high-ranking official at the State Department, and former co-chairman of the Republican National Committee. The ultimatum was either to kill the truth or bend it, and with the public outcry they opted for bending it instead. Mrs. Harrison's purpose is to "stabilize" the last venue of free speech by causing CPB-sponsored programming to lean more to the right. In the next year you'll see NPR and PBS become more like Fox News: more propaganda, more political bias, and an ultimately poisoned media outlet. A no-win situation!

Okay so it's probably not that bad, but controlling the larger end of media and publicly criticizing what can't be controlled is not the way to win votes from the people paying attention (which is the ultimate objective). Of course, where in America is there a majority that pays attention? You can still see some light shined on this at npr.org, but that light is a little dimmer today.

dfb