FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
November 01, 2007 |
CONTACT: TIM SCHEIDERER OR
COLLEEN O’BOYLE AT 703.683.5004 |
No Fairness Doctrine for
PBS
How
Taxpayer-Funded Broadcasting Is “Surging” Left Under Democrats
Alexandria, VA — The Media Research Center
(MRC) has just released No Fairness Doctrine for PBS, an
in-depth report documenting and detailing how the taxpayer-funded
network has become even more blatantly and boldly liberal since the
Democrats won control of Congress in November of 2006.
“Since the Democrats assumed control of Congress, we’ve seen PBS
add an extra jolt of electricity to their usual bashing of
conservatives and Republicans,” said Tim Graham, author of the
report and MRC’s Director of Media Analysis.
“Liberals complain about fairness in talk radio, and seek to
revive and reinstate a 1940s relic in the Fairness Doctrine, but do
not want it applied to taxpayer-funded broadcasting. They want a
one-sided sandbox for the left. They’re perfectly happy with PBS
airing hours on impeachment, with PBS hosts telling Howard Dean how
they’re making advertising images for him, and with CPB grant-makers
handing over hundreds of millions of dollars for filmmakers to tout
‘transgender militancy’ and other exotic left-wing revolutionary
movements. Conservatives are expected to just pay the bill and wave
a white flag,” Graham concluded.
The examples of how much farther left PBS has gone are myriad:
Bill Moyers devoted an entire hour on July 13 to two guests
strenuously calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush
and Vice President Dick Cheney. Tavis Smiley campaigns
against the GOP when four Presidential front-runners skip his
September debate due its close proximity to the quarterly
fund-raising deadline. And the “Independent” Television Service,
an entity populated exclusively by liberal filmmakers, draws about
$15 million annually from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
to produce movies that knock Bush Administration policies, celebrate
leftist agitators and promote “progressive” sexual politics.
Says Graham, “Since public television is supported by taxpayers
of all political stripes, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
ought to live up to its mandate to monitor content for objectivity
and fairness. Having hosts actively campaigning against Republicans
and conservative ideas doesn’t make PBS look fair.”
T o
schedule an interview with MRC President Bozell or an MRC
spokesperson, please contact Tim Scheiderer (x. 126) or Colleen
O’Boyle (x. 122) at 703.683.5004.
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