Posted on 07/13/2005 8:50:57 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin
Congress is once again debating the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which partially funds the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR). Public broadcasting doesn’t require fine-tuning. Like most other remnants of the Great Society, it needs to be killed.
Much of the discussion centers on the question of public broadcasting’s bias. That question was settled long ago. PBS’ and NPR’s programming has had an obvious leftist tilt since their inception.
In 1969, PBS carried a documentary on the ongoing struggle in Vietnam. The program was produced in - surprise, surprise - Communist North Vietnam.
A dozen years ago, a Los Angeles PBS station ran the "Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend." Viewers learned: Jewish doctors intentionally inoculate black babies with the AIDS virus. Jews were responsible for the African slave trade. Whites deliberately imported homosexuality into Africa. In a peculiar coalition based on hate, Jews and the Mafia have joined together to destroy blacks.
Last year, one of PBS’ children’s series included a program with a lesbian couple. And we can’t forget one of PBS’ better known offerings, "NOW," which was hosted by seasoned LBJ bootlicker Bill Moyers. The president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting wrote:
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
INteresting, the article coming from Canada?
We have a lot of American readers, so we have a few American columnists. Bates is one of them.
Is there State funding of the CBC?
This seems to contradict a couple of liberal premises:
A) that homosexuality is good, and
B) that homosexuality is a genetic, not a chosen sexual orientation.
Government owned or supported broadcasting is the same thing whether it's in the old USSR or here.
Yes. It is entirely state funded.
BTTT
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