PBS To Purge Stations With Religious Programs
Does anyone think PBS would have the guts to do this if the president wasn’t a Democrat, Capitol Hill wasn’t Democrat, or the offending sectarian programs were Muslim?
PBS stations are debating the limits of one of public television’s basic commandments: Thou shalt not broadcast religious programming. The discussion, some station managers fear, could lead to a ban on broadcasts of local church services and other faith-oriented programs that have appeared on public stations for decades despite the prohibition.
The Public Broadcasting Service’s board is to vote next month on a committee’s recommendation to strip the affiliation of any station that carries “sectarian” content. Losing its PBS relationship would mean that a station could no longer broadcast programs that the service distributes, from “Sesame Street” to “Frontline.”
Remember this when PBS conducts their little annual telethons, begging for money in exchange for lame DVDs or CDs. This stripping of affiliation easily goes both ways, and when the House, Senate, and White House go Republican, let’s hope they remember, strip their funding, and pull a post office on them. Let’s see how well they function without public funding.
May 17th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
PBS has alredy raised so much money — and invested same — that they could go on a long, long time if ever forced to spend that money on public television.
They were buyin’ up Krugerrands while broadcasting shows about how bad S. African apartheid was…
May 17th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Strange. When I call them and ask if I can designate $ to a program (we like the cooking programs and This Old House), I’m told no. I say then tough because I’m not going to support their Lib views and I’m going to waste time and write my Congressmen and ask that they cut off the $. They always answer that the money they get from the govt is minuscule. Well, then, I say, you won’t miss it then. As for NPR, I have XM so that I can get classical without listening to the Democrat Public Network.