PBS to attract more conservatives

apologies if dupe....
'NYT' Preview: New Public Broadcasting Chief Wants Conservative Viewers

By E&P Staff

Published: April 22, 2005 12:40 PM ET

NEW YORK In this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Ken Ferree, the new president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, says he wants PBS, long considered a liberal bastion, to attract more conservative viewers. "Does public television belong to the Democrats?" he asks.

He also says he still has no idea what led to the recent departure of his predecessor, Kathleen Cox, which according to rumors occurred at least partly because of complaints from conservative groups and the "Postcards from Buster" flap.

Asked if he is worried that liberal PBS loyalists may exit, he says: "Well, maybe we can attract some new viewers." More conservative ones? Deborah Solomon asks. "Yeah! I would hope that in the long run we can attract new viewers, and we shouldn't limit ourselves to a particular demographic."

All music, for that matter. It's talk radio now. News and talk.

And they've gotten their last contribution from this former listener.

It's WETA-FM here in the DC area.

See, NPR is spelled differently from PBS............ :)

;)


Hmm...seems it *is* NPR...at least mostly. A few PBS shows seem to be included in their schedule, though.


BTW, I like the setup we have here:

Public Radio Partnership
http://www.prp.org

Radio and TV - here in the DC area, the WETA channel is PBS, and WETA-FM is also PBS. I'm so disappointed in them. The only other available classical music station is commercial, and that's hardly worth listening to.

Nice setup, that PRR. Wish we had something like that here. You're lucky.........

Been like that for a few years. They host a yearly convention/seminar/thingie and invite other public radio officials down. Hopefully it will start to spread.

with repeats every single night. That's what conservatives will watch.

They sure as hell don't want anything that will make them THINK.

seems to be the thing now so of course they're going to do this. It's a fad. Like big hair in the 80's.

not liberal. So, now they are going to shift to the right to attract Conservatives, like what, are they going to hire Cokie Roberts?

Oh, yeah...

Conservatives will stop complaining about public funding of PBS when they start airing RW talking points.

Mz Pip
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They're just going to take over everything.

I like many programs from NPR and I dont want to be driven away.

Competative donating. I can see the drives now. If you would like to see more of this program and programs like it call this number. If you would like to see this program and others like it burnt in the parking lot call this number.

insane world. I've been hooked on it since I was in my late teens. I usually watch the news hour, love Frontline and some of the classic British series they sometimes play. They had all those wonderfully funny shows before they became vogue. I've actually hooked a few friends on the music concerts & videos they put together, 50's, 60', etc. I'd sure hate to see this wide ranged mix get narrowed down just to attract a completely different audience.

http://www.thirteen.org/index.php

puker's, first thing is comprehensive information bores them.Kkkarl and rush to judgment is all they know.

I like the documentaries they have. I saw a few they had during the election. I wonder what they're going to do. So much for the liberal media.

must be "liberal". And of course, presenting simple facts is unfair, because facts don't bolster Republican arguments.

The very premise of that statement is so transparently propagandist that you'd think it would inspire nothing but laughs.

You con't see Faux News changing format to attract educated, thoughtful, moral people. They just go on lowering standards of news, civil discourse, public behavior, and intellectual rigor. There are intelligent, principled conservatives, but the neocons who have usurped power not among them; they're as thoughtlessly vicious as a bunch of blue sharks who've caught the scent of blood. Corrupting PBS -- I wonder whether it serves a goal or it is merely a "F@ck You" gesture from those dimwit fascists.

Thank god for the Internet. If they try to mess w/ that, there's gonna be a serious fight.

Gyre

PBS/NPR have been the only place that you could go to get away from these a**holes...now watch...they will start to complain that it's too left leaning and there are no religious programing for far rights...shows like Now and Front Line will be too liberal and protests will be made; Nova will not represent Scripture....maybe the "End" is near! I'm buying a gun , killing off my brain cells with booze and getting a "W" sticker,maybee then they will leave me alone.

No, but the truth does. If PBS is going to adopt "FOX NEWS" tactics to attract the Cons, then the last bastion of truth on the public airwaves is going to die a slow, painful death.
The only reason PBS has survived through the years is because of donations by Progressives and constant vigilance by Progressive Legislators. The Cons would have gutted PBS years ago if it were not for Progressives.
Now they decide they want to not only bite the hand that nurtured it all those lean years, but want to form an allegiance with the hand that wanted to kill it all those years.
PBS was created to be a non-partisan purveyor of the truth. With Cons in charge and trying to attract a Con audience, it will most certainly go the way every other entity the Cons have touched has gone. It will become corrupt, tainted by lies, disinformation and the ever present goal of complete control by the Conservatives. They want to control ALL of the information because, by exercising that control, they have total control of what Americans think.
PBS can forget about any more donations from family and I. I hope that their new Corporate masters are willing to pony up the cash necessary to keep them afloat in a sea already filled with disinformation.
PBS can go to hell, along with the rest of the Conservative controlled media. The net will be my only source of news now, but when they start regulating IT'S content, and they most certainly will, it will be time for the final battle between good and evil in this country.

Shrub and Kkkarl have nothing to do with comprehensive anything.

live in remote redneck area and PBS provides me sanity.

on the push to make public tv conservative. I have stopped listening even to NPR lately--especially Cokie, who seems to be drinking the Kool-Aid these days--more than usual. I've been listening to AAR (though I listen less, now that they have Springer). I noticed that our NPR station's fund drive was saying yesterday that they are down $30,000 in donations. Hadn't heard anything like that in a long time. Usually they seem to sail along.

to PBS... perhaps that's their plan for demise

Three words: massive federal funding.

I believe your right...Newty couldn't kill it and we libs kept it alive....so put in a director who changes the format...lose the donations for liberals, fed' fund it and program it the way you want....we've been had....the last stronghold of the truth( or as close as your going to get)

and our friends and colleagues. We're not all raging liberal ideologues, and I've always thought the PBS airwaves were nicely balanced, but that, of course, wouldn't play to the suckass fundamentalists who aren't going to be happy until everything starts with a prayer praising Ratface In The White House and the Lord Jesus Christ.

To which I can only say, "Jesus Christ ................"

Am having nightmares over this.

drive away the base that has supported it and then claim that because there are no listeners it should be abolished.

I say... start protesting like mad and demand a truly "fair and balanced " approach. I have no problems with a format that balances strong thinking conservatives against strong thinking liberals... May the best man win. Remember some of the talk shows in the 50s and 60s with Gore Vidal and Bill Buckley. Now that was a fight to watch. Something with more intellect than animals baying in the Fox zoo.

I do have problems with a Hannity and Colmes format... Strong, good looking, conservative beats Wimpy, Dorky looking, liberal. You aint foolin no one.

Rather than pulling donations which is what they want, let's get real vocal about this.