Posted on 05/17/2009 6:14:50 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
Here’s one sign that the zeitgeist in Barack Obama’s Washington is going to please the secular left. On Saturday, Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi highlighted a policy shift brewing inside PBS: the PBS Board is going to vote in June on a committee’s recommendation that PBS strip the affiliation of any station that carries "sectarian" content. Broadcast religious programming – like a Catholic Mass – and you’ll lose every PBS program from Sesame Street to the NewsHour.
Apparently, PBS passed a fairness-and-balance policy in 1985 that insisted on "Three Nons" – noncommercial, nonpartisan, and nonsectarian.
Are they serious? PBS routinely fails at nonpartisanship, and its programs have long been a commercial bonanza for savvy "nonprofiteers."
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I guess KBYU is going by the boards.
This is a backwards way for the government to establish their religion.
next time the’re on air beging for money,call in and tell them you just called not to donate.tie up a line.
whatever it takes. if not for govt money they wouldn’t have lasted 2 years. only communist countries need their own tv station.
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Look.
Once again, this is all about sects.
Everybody lies about sects.
Can't we all just move on?
Heavens, all is lost! Seriously, in this day and age of 300+ channels who watches/cares about PBS?
As BBC goes so goes PBS.
NPR does too
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=510936
NPR: “”places a high value on presenting diverse perspectives, as opposed to rigidly adhering to any single political or religious point of view.”
Two Arizona stations have to get rid of religious programs which were actually raising some revenue for
the stations...
So what about some of their “cultural” programming like concerts? No Bach cantatas? No Handel’s Messiah? (On the other hand, I haven’t listened or watched ANY public broadcasting in years -— maybe all that stuff is gone anyway.)
“ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... ”
too bad the Founders did not reverse the order of this sentence, the stupid never get past the first phrase
It’s for the best. The radio waves are filled with religious broadcasters, they don’t rely on NPR.
But if they take the few Christian shows off NPR they can’t be sued to force equal access by Islam, Wicca, Scientology, etc.
they can’t be sued to force equal access by Islam, Wicca, Scientology, etc.
But those shows will be presented anyway. How much you want to bet that the ban on sectarian broadcasts are rather selective, i.e. having anything to do with Christianity.
Next on the plate is requiring Christian broadcasters to give “equal time” to Satanists, Santeria, radical Islamists, Scientology, EST (or whatever it’s sold as now). and Gaia worshippers.
It’s now the ‘Pagan Broadcasting System’, All Day, Every Day!
Right on!
So no more Christmas music shows, such as Carols at Kings College, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, or the concert at St. Olaf’s?
Big govt. can not allow a strong religion because most religious people hold the word of god to be above any law, constitution or bill of rights that is created by man.
That is why the soviets and chinese crushed their churches of any religion, chritian, muslim, it did not matter.
Obama is a closet communist and he will try to do the same.
Nonpartisan? What dream world are they living in? This further shows how bias and anti religion they are.
Nonpartisan? What dream world are they living in? This further shows how bias and anti religion they are.
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