Tainted PBS show that got Tomlinson booted winds up on FOX

"The Wall Street Journal -produced Journal Editorial Report, the conservative-oriented talk show that figured in the scandal that brought down Kenneth Tomlinson as chairman of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, has found a new home at Fox News Channel. Earlier this month a CPB internal investigation concluded that Tomlinson may have violated federal law by piloting the Journal program onto PBS as a way of politically balancing a program hosted by Bill Moyers...read on"

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/12/03.html#a6168

but this is serious, they are de-funding public television.
All things public are anathema to them. They hate clean air, taking walks in the national parks, etc...

What is the commons anymore?

Where did he end up?

have you noticed that the name(s) of his shows are rip offs from others?

Unfiltered?

The Situation?

Paul Gigot gave a poor-pitiful-me speech at the end all about how "balance" is needed on public TV. Oh those poor widdle biddle conservatives, who never have had a voice on PBS. What a shame that Gigot has never been a featured guest on News Hour, that the McGaughlin Report is such a vehicle for Marxist ideology, that Now never ever interviews conservatives much less allows them to speak without editorializing, that PBS never broadcast the Daniel Gergen's paean to neoliberalism, "The Commanding Heights." Yeah, Frontline tends to be reliably biased against the powers that be, which ever powers they may be at the time, but their job is Devil's advocate, not lackey.

Why was the Journal Editorial Report kicked off PBS? Maybe it has a lot to do with viewers like me, who wrote letters saying that we would never contribute one dime to our local PBS programming as long as a show like JER, which only showcases one viewpoint and mocks any other, is aired. I can't think of a single other PBS program that was ever so exclusionary and derisive of other points of view. I do watch conservative programming when it is serious and considered, but I don't watch programming, whether left or right, that is self-congratulatory and purposely misrepresents other points of view. And I certainly will not contribute money or my viewership to a program consisting of all white, wealthy males that dares to weigh in on race, gender or class. I noticed that, after JER was excoriated for its all-male poo-poohing of the lack of women's rights guarantees in the Iraqi constitution, that they started bringing on board a token woman when they cover a "women's issue." Losers. They should have done like To the Contrary, which makes a virtue of having "a variety of women's points of view," and announced that they are bringing America "a rich white male point of view." Unless they are, you know, trying to hide that fact.

Well, it's pledge week on my local PBS station. I guess I'm going to have to pledge now.

you would no longer contribute as long as they permit such biased, one-sided programming and cover it with lies.

Please consider emailing your post to the NYT and perhaps a few other papers, radio programs and tv hosts. We have to start showing them our disgust and our outrage one email at a time.