of funds. Many of their major donors are big corporations. (Just listen to the mini ads they give.) Though they are not a full blown corporatist propaganda tool, that kind of intimidation has had an affect.

I haven't heard any serious attacks on Public Broadcasting in the past several years, particularly since 9/11, and most especially since the Iraq War.

I hardly listen to NPR anymore. And PBS I only watch a few programs.

When an NYC public broadcasting station announced it was going to air a film entitled Citizen Koch, the bastards' foundation cut off donations. That left the station in dire straights for operating funds needed to stay on the air.

Not that PBS would leave anything out on purpose, other than the fact that Washington is in the banksters' thrall as much as the warmongers'. And that crooks at ENRON bilked all the pension money of their employers. And that preparing public employees for the latest round of fleecing is just another coincidence in the upward transfer of wealth. Other than that, I look forward to complete reportage.

You have to look at everything in the media through U.P. filtering glasses (Ultra Propaganda).

to industries that favor right wing policies are providing the lion's share of the funding and is influencing their programming. This has been happening for a couple of decades now. I started noticing the bias in their news programming then.

VOA tendrils and assaults on Pacifica tell us more about our government's priorities and intents than cries of corporate consolidation.

For years the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has created and owned Courthouse newspapers that are free right outside the jury assembly rooms. Bored citizens waiting around for jury duty can read one sided accounts about all of the frivolous, jack pot justice cases that clog our courts. The one in my hometown is called the Southeasttexasrecord.com. They all have "Record" in the name. The 1st edition of ours had 2 front page stories, med malpractice (doctors leaving the state b/c of frivolous suits) and asbestos (fraudulent asbestos cases everywhere). They handed these outside the courtrooms to the prospective jurors who were being picked for a med-mal case and an asbestos case. Funny how that worked huh?

everything, don't they? We sooooo need some laws to stop this coup. Very clever way to invade and take over a country, first rob as much money as you can, then buy everything.

country. They have turned the lower courts into a Republican farm club and a stopper for civil suits against corporations as well as ultra conservative on social issues.

we've won hoping to get something done about it.

Can't really be public but dependent on private money without giving up something for that money.

National Plutocratic Radio, and it's main program, "Planet Money", hosted by one of the most ethically-depraved 1% a$$-kissers in the US, Adam Davidson.

cutting out public support because NPR was "too liberal"

http://books.google.com/books?id=XVyImUj6AGkC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=reagan+NPR+funding&source=bl&ots=EEnTDN48JP&sig=TWFAPfTvrlVzdrhyXQBtz86nkuc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gEj-UvLFDKS6yQHAuYCICg&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=reagan%20NPR%20funding&f=false

Just another LBJ program along with voting rights that must be destroyed. Dry up the money and let the corporations take it as another privatizing of the public. No dissenting views allowed, good bye Moyers.

Sad.

board a Koch has been on to my knowledge is this:


Although a generally low-profile person, David Koch has become controversial in recent years because of his strong conservative and libertarian views, and substantial financial support for political action groups supporting those views. He is also one of the world's leading philanthropists....In 1997, he began serving — and still serves — as a trustee of PBS-member station WGBH in Boston and in 2006 he joined the board of New York's PBS-member station WNET. He resigned from that position just last week, on May 16.

http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2013/05/david_koch_and_pbs_the_odd_couple.html


Important stations, but not equal to "PBS" itself.

Thanks for the correction. He and his brother are like octupii (sp?) - their arms are everywhere, evil plutocrats that they are.

pbs had to change to digital

they could not raise the money w/o bank loans.....once the big banks were involved it seemed to go downhill fast

to mess up NPR was in the early 90s. Clinton had become president, sNewt was rising in power and the "Contract on America" was the new fling for the Rs. I distinctly recall a point in 1994 (Dec. 22 to be exact), sNewt was about to become howler of the House, an NPR reporter was at some event and was bale to shoot a question to the sNewtster. (sNewt was under ethics investigation for taking a $4M advance for an alleged book he wasn't actually writing from one Rupert Murdock who was also having legal issues with government at the time.)

The reporter asked about the $4M and if that wasn't a conflict of interest issue for sNewt given Murdock's legal issues. sNewt's response was, "No, it's not an issue. Mr. Murdock has a problem regarding some rules, so we'll change the rules and then there won't be a problem."

That aired once, was not repeated in the afternoon, can't find it in the archives either. As soon as sNewt was in his howler's seat, he attacked NPR by cutting public funding via the federal budget. Thus, the CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) was born in short order to protect the public broadcasting system. It's all been downhill since.

PBS : Plutocratic Broadcasting Station. And this article doesn't even begin to really cover it.