Saturday, July 16, 2005
PBS Drama
Right-wing fundamentalists are not giving up on attacking PBS. Anyone who regularly watches the network should have seen this coming back during the election when Frontline aired an episode on Bush and Kerry that illustrated what a useless twat Bush is. The show was balanced in the fact that it showed Kerry's twat-like characteristics as well. I guess 'balanced journalism' means having an equal number of not-so-nice things to say about everyone. So a show comparing Churchill and Hitler would be obliged to cover that Hitler liked animals and did a lot for German industrialization while glossing over the Holocaust, because for an objective comparison to be fair, no one can come out looking better. Right?
I'd have to backtrack the dates on the anti-PBS maneuverings but I'm fairly certain that the April Carl Rove edition was the defining impetus. Kudos to Washington for so cleverly disassembling the last decent outlet of the mainstream media milieu, all under the guise of shielding children from lesbians.
I'd have to backtrack the dates on the anti-PBS maneuverings but I'm fairly certain that the April Carl Rove edition was the defining impetus. Kudos to Washington for so cleverly disassembling the last decent outlet of the mainstream media milieu, all under the guise of shielding children from lesbians.
