Posted on 02/28/2006 1:47:16 PM PST by HaveGunWillTravel
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 — The Public Broadcasting Service's plan to show a debate after its documentary in April on the Ottoman Turks' massacres of Armenians has infuriated Armenian-Americans. The debate, which includes two people who deny that the massacre constituted genocide, has ignited an aggressive campaign against the network.
This week, United States Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of Pasadena, Calif., whose Southern California district includes parts of the largest ethnic Armenian population outside Armenia, asked colleagues to join him in a letter to the network condemning the program.
A major Armenian lobbying group, the Armenian National Committee of America, has also asked PBS to cancel the program, which was produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting to accompany a new one-hour documentary, "The Armenian Genocide," scheduled to be shown on April 17. Organizers of an Internet petition against the half-hour discussion program said more than 11,000 people had signed it on the Web site.
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I hope that John Batchelor jumps down their throats and chews up their tonsils!
Good grief. PBS, and especially our own state's pathetic OPB, just need to have their funding pulled. No need for them any longer. People in this state can get their news fine now. No reason for gov't subsidized television at all as if there ever was one... Just socialist propaganda organizations is all.
PBS are scum.
I think it's a taped partial show but KSFO streams it Tuesday - Sunday: 3:00 AM - 5:00 AM
Armenians are pretty much screwed wherever they are. I'm glad that some of them have found refuge here in the States or in Australia.
"PBS is a collection of wireless socialist morons with delusions of philosophical grandeur, greedy fingered slavering redistributionist tree-dwelling hominids who believe that if they don't control all the money, all the money isn't being controlled properly...."
~ Larry Leonard ~ Oregon Magazine
I am in the DC Capital area. He can be heard live here at 10PM to 1AM EDT on WMAL.
http://www.wmal.com/listenlive.asp
Hope that this meets your needs.
I don't agree with him in everything but in most things he is an adequate/steady reference.
Lots of them here in L.A. Good food too! :)
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