More bias at PBS

The American Thinker ^ | 11 April 2007 | Thomas Lifson (comments)

[Lando Lincoln]

In what appears to be a case of outrageous censorship by publicly-funded PBS, a documentary film, prepared by a partnership including the estimable Frank Gaffney, on the struggle between moderate and radical Muslims has been deep-sixed. We print below a statement prepared by Mr. Gaffney on the situation. Read the linked article and the statement and decide for yourself whether PBS is behaving as the even-handed non-partisan entity it is supposed to be. The statement:

Background

... Frank Gaffney was among those invited to submit a proposal for a documentary film about the world post-9/11 to the CPB... Shortly thereafter, a partnership was formed by Mr. Gaffney with Alex Alexiev (an internationally renowned expert on Islamism) and Martyn Burke (an accomplished author and Hollywood director of feature and documentary films) - ABG Films Inc.  ABG proposed to make an hour-long documentary about the plight of moderate Muslims at the hands of their Islamist co-religionists.

This film, with the working title of "Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center," was one of thirty-five proposals selected by CPB out of roughly 440 competitors for a research and development grant.  The ABG team used this grant to produce a 35-minute short film and written treatment.  The ABG proposal was, in turn, one of 20 competitors further down-selected by CPB to receive a nearly $600,000 production grant.  At the time, moreover, it was announced in a CPB press release that "Islam vs. Islamists" would be one of the Crossroads series films to be aired by the Public Broadcasting Service...

[schwing_wifey]

OK, lets get a copy uploaded to the Internet and distributed....

;D