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Public Broadcasting Monitor Had Worked at Center Founded by Conservatives (Heaven Forfend!)
NYTimes ^

Posted on 06/21/2005 5:37:29 AM PDT by andyandval

By STEPHEN LABATON WASHINGTON, June 20 - A researcher retained secretly by the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to monitor the "Now" program with Bill Moyers for political objectivity last year, worked for 20 years at a journalism center founded by the American Conservative Union and a conservative columnist, an official at the journalism center said on Monday.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: defundpbsnow
"As a result of your recent attempts to inject partisan politics into the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, I am writing to urge you to step down as chairman," Mr. Lautenberg wrote.

Too funny

1 posted on 06/21/2005 5:37:30 AM PDT by andyandval
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To: andyandval

And Bill Moyers worked for a RAT politician.


2 posted on 06/21/2005 5:38:25 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: andyandval
That should read "My staff is writing you and holding my hand to steady it as I sign this".

Lautenberg speaking extemporaneously is a textbook definition of senility.
3 posted on 06/21/2005 5:50:18 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken (Seldom right, but never in doubt.)
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