Posted on 05/18/2005 6:40:59 PM PDT by AlbertWang
Kenneth Tomlinson's crusade to purify public broadcasting is Nixon Redux. It's also Reagan Redux and Gingrich Redux.
Snip All this reads like chapters from the Nixon attack plan against public TV and radio
snip. If it weren't so damaging, the hard right's obsession with public broadcasting would be merely pathetic
snip Yet instead of just sucking up their annoyance with something few people see or hear, conservatives pump their pulse rates into triple digits and bleat about being the poor victims of liberal media bias.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
"The Hard Right"
You know . . . the people who believe in the Constitution.
There, much more accurate.
Well, duh.
1... Microsoft "commissions" polls about how Windows is cheaper than Linux - is that a fair poll, or advertising?
2... If you survey your "viewers" then OF COURSE you are going to get people who like it - people who DON'T like it AREN'T VIEWERS!
The Hard Right, vs. the limp bent Viagra dependant left!
Why should we just "suck up" our annoyances with these people? The left wingers complain all the time about Rush and Fox News. Why don't they suck it up as well?
By the way, neither of the aforementioned entities takes my tax dollars to broadcast its views, either. My tax dollars pay (well, paid) for Bill Moyers. The aggravation is not that the point of view exists, but that my tax money is being taken to support that point of view.
Can they ever think of anything besides Nixon, by the way? Nixon did not start the modern Conservative Movement. The big figure I always heard for that was Goldwater.
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
Salon is a PR group for the DNC. I was surprised they got another round of doners this year (it not being an election year).
Good example of doublespeak!
That's an absolute fact... Jack!!! His domestic policies were attrotious!!!
He may have fought Commonism (I deliberately spell it that way nowadays) overseas, but he seemed to encourage it here at home at times with wage and price controls and the Endangered Species Act to name just a couple of the worst!!!
Believe me, the Left will never be satisfied until they control everything. Their idea of Utopia is a place where everyone is compelled to agree with them.
What do they think they are publishing? The Koran?
Congressman Billybob
How awful. The EVIL Tomlinson's trying to create more of a philosophical and political balance. And in place of PB LIBERAL BRAINWASHING SESSIONS, liberals call PB News, he is pushing for........music. What an idiot. /sarcasm
Eric,
Never ceases to amaze me how hypocritical progressive's are (actually I'm kidding I know exactly why that is). To think that Conservatives would actually want a little fairness when it comes to presentation of ideologies, how dare they. You people take the cake! It seems that you only consider journalism correct if it is so far left that your hero Lenin would approve. I don't want my tax dollars to pay for the garbage coming from people like Moyers who I have no use for, who are not Patriotic, sorry but that's true though I believe the explanation would be a bit much for you to comprehend. But what is not true is much of the reporting and "journalism" that is dominated 5 to 1 by left wing ideologues whose only credentials seem to be hyper left wing activism and not intellect. So take a Prozac Eric, take your head out of your cave and move to the light. There is whole world out there beyond the simpleton progressive theories that have dominated media, politics and Academia for the last 50+ years. Your experiment is over and "We the People " are left to clean up the mess.
Absolutely Sincere,
PS Your award winning journalist Moyers is only award winning because of the dominance in the industry of like minded buffoons. Rank him right up there with the creative fabricators like Rather and Arnett and Isakoff and......on and on and on.
Nixon - Media shocked "No one I KNEW voted for him"
Resigned for subordinates mis-deeds that he found out after the fact. Wuss Republicans abandon ship. He was atrocious for the conservatives. Wage and price controls, EPA, endangered feces act.
Reagan - Media to America - How could you be so stupid to elect this guy? Media unable to find much to smear. Iran Contra -Ollie North to the rescue takes full responsibility.
Clinton - Media parties non stop "Most ethical administration in history" Umpteen cabinet members resign, face charges for fraud, take bribes get caught, get shot, Clinton and Monica get hot, Hillary "I don't recall" shows her knowledge of her sisters - the bovine species and manages to turn $1,000 into $100,000 in cattle futures
Bush - wants to reign in Corporation for Pubic Broadcasting - We're ALL GONNA DIE
The top paragraph in the above reply should be in quotes as it was taken directly from the article.
You'd think they'd take at least some small measure of comfort from their control of the White House, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and, if their plan works, the federal courts.
BWAAAHHAAAAA cough.... cough...
It would be a lot easier to heed the Left's call to stop bashing the media if they didn't keep handing us the bat.
The Nixon reference dates the writer as someone who chanted Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh in college. I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing that whole miserable generation of New Lefties would just leave STFU and let the grown-ups get on with business.
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