Posted on 05/13/2005 5:42:31 AM PDT by prairiebreeze
Oh! Sorry to hear you are having trouble with the stream. Have you tried re-launching or rebooting even?
PBS up next. Tony is laying out the background, talking about the letter the Dimbulbs have sent charging that Tomlinson has done something illegal.
It has to be something BIG!
Ditto...
Tony talking about Bill Moyers new production company and how he's gotten millions of $$ from taxpayers through PBS to launch it and bash Pubs, Christians etc.
PBS Monitoring Sparks New Review
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
Associated Press Writer
May 12, 2005, 5:01 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will begin an internal review of political monitoring of PBS programming in response to Democratic complaints, the CPB's inspector general said Thursday.
Reps. David Obey and John Dingell have asked for the review into several actions by CPB board chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, a Republican, including the hiring of a consultant to review the guests on the show "Now With Bill Moyers."
The New York Times reported last week that the consultant kept track of "anti-Bush," "anti-business" and "anti-Tom DeLay" guests on the show. Moyers has left the show and now hosts "Wide Angle" on PBS.
"We are committed to performing a review and looking at the record and giving them the information they asked for," CPB Inspector General Kenneth A. Konz told The Associated Press.
Moyers was on vacation Thursday and unavailable for comment, his representative said. He is scheduled to address the issue Sunday in speech to the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis.
In their letter to Konz on Wednesday, Obey, D-Wis., and Dingell, D-Mich., said Tomlinson's actions may have violated the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which bans interference by federal officials over public programming. The CPB, a private, nonprofit corporation funded by Congress, provides funds for PBS.
"Congress intended that the CPB serve as a shield rather than a source of political interference into public broadcasting," they wrote.
The lawmakers also questioned Tomlinson's decision to secure corporate money to fund the "Journal Editorial Report," hosted by the editor of The Wall Street Journal editorial page, and pressing PBS into distributing it.
The actions have attracted criticism not only from Democratic lawmakers but from PBS' president and chief executive, Pat Mitchell.
In a statement issued Thursday, Tomlinson said, "I welcome the call by Congressmen Dingell and Obey for the inspector general to examine issues related to my efforts to encourage public broadcasters to take more seriously the need that our current affairs lineup reflect objectivity and balance.
"I look forward to working with the inspector general and with the Congress to clear up with finality distortions in press reports and elsewhere about our work to bring more diversity to public broadcasting."
Tomlinson did not specify what those distortions were, and he declined through a spokesman an interview request. Earlier this week, he told the Los Angeles Times that he would reach out to liberal advocacy groups to reassure them.
"Public broadcasting is a very fragile institution," Tomlinson told the paper. "If I cause liberals to lose support for public broadcasting, I will have done the system harm."
The Public Television Programmers Association, which represents local PBS programmers, said an investigation is warranted.
"It is a serious situation we're facing," said Ron Pisaneschi, the group's vice president and the broadcasting director for Idaho Public Television. "The decisions to fund certain programs, such as the 'Journal Editorial Report,' appeared to have political motivations."
Obey said he was glad the inspector general had agreed to launch a review. "We need to get to the bottom of this," he said.
No, he's not.
He's on at 8 PM tonite! (ha)
in Dallas.
TONY SNOW
Exclusively Represented by the Washington Speakers Bureau
Tony Snow was named host of the FOX News Sunday public affairs program on April 3, 1996. He is also a political analyst for FOX News.
Snow was a nationally syndicated columnist with the Detroit News from 1993 to 2000, and a columnist for USA Today from 1994 to 2000. His writings appear in more than 200 newspapers nationwide. He has appeared on radio and television programs worldwide including The McLaughlin Group, Crossfire, and Good Morning America.
Prior to the 1994 elections, Snow was the writer, correspondent and host of a PBS news special, The New Militant Center, which anticipated some of the upsets that shook the political establishment.
In 1991, Snow took a sabbatical from journalism to work in the White House for George Bush, first as chief speechwriter (deputy assistant to the president for communications and director of speechwriting) and later as deputy assistant to the president for media affairs (1992-93).
Snow began his journalism career in 1979 as an editorial writer for the Greensboro Record in North Carolina. He later served as an editorial writer at the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia (1981-82), editorial page editor of the Daily Press in Newport News (1982-84), deputy editorial page editor of the Detroit News (1984-87) and editorial page editor of the Washington Times (1987-91).
Snow received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Davidson College, North Carolina, in 1977, and studied philosophy and economics at the University of Chicago during the 1978-79 academic year. He taught school in Kenya and in Cincinnati and worked as an advocate for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled in North Carolina.
Born in Berea, Kentucky, in 1955 and raised in Cincinnati, Snow is married to the former Jill Ellen Walker. They live in Virginia with their three children, a son and two daughters, and three dogs and two cats.
Tony says PBS approached him 10 years ago, realizing they had a bias problem they asked him to do a conservative program. He agreed. They gave Tony a tiny, tiny budget. They aired the one episode. Then the PBS pooh-bahs told Tony they didn't want him to do anymore. Tony says it was like they might have well told him "We don't like your kind around here."
LOL!
All Tony needs now is a Parrot! ;-)
The documentary was first mentioned on Tony's show. You all can help.
LOL
Galloway may face probe by Scotland Yard
The Evening Standard ^ | May 13, 2005 | Paul Waugh
Posted on 05/13/2005 6:55:14 AM PDT by MadIvan
George Galloway could face an investigation by Scotland Yard if British diplomats conclude that there is a case for action in the wake of fresh Iraqi oil allegations, it emerged today.
The Foreign Office said that it had launched an urgent review of a US Senate sub-committee's claims that Saddam Hussein's regime granted Mr Galloway rights to sell up to £268 million worth of oil.
The Charity Commission also confirmed that it was considering a fresh look at its own probe into a charity set up by the former Labour MP, which American senators have claimed was used to conceal payments from Iraq.
A Foreign Office spokesman told the Standard today: "We want to see if there is evidence that will require us to take further action."
The Charity Commission first investigated Mr Galloway's leukemia charity, the Mariam Appeal, last year, but decided to take no action. A spokesman said: "We are currently reviewing the findings of our previous inquiry."
The Respect MP has vowed to fly to Washington next week to testify before the sub-committee.
Yeah, we had a next door neighbor who was up for some kind of promotion in the Navy.
We had spoken to him maybe twice and he had lived there about 6 months. We had a nice visit from the FBI and I was like, duh!
Harry Reid in stripes. I kinda like that image.
This is shocking. Is she lying?
LOL! Of course not! She can't remember! (Until they find some "misplaced" files in an aide-to-Hillary's car trunk.
Hmmmmm sounds like a good tagline! ;-)
You may have it.
Novak reported yesterday that, Janice O'Connell, an aide to Sen. Chris Dodd (D- CT and Cuba and the attempted assault on the waitress with Sen. Kennedy in a restaurant) had it in for Bolton on a witch hunt against those that fail to appease Castro.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20050512.shtml
More on Reid
Harry Reid Steps Over the Line - Again
National Review ^ | 05/13/05 | Byron York
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1402491/posts
thxs
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