Conservatives now control all top positions at PBS

[KipWellsFan]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...2601598_pf.html

 

A leading Republican donor and fundraiser was elected chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting yesterday, tightening conservative control over the agency that oversees National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.

 

Cheryl F. Halpern, a New Jersey lawyer and real estate developer, won approval from the CPB's board. She succeeds a close board ally, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who stirred controversy earlier this year by contending that public broadcasting favors liberal views. Tomlinson's term as chairman had expired, but he will remain a member of the board.

 

The board also elected another conservative, Gay Hart Gaines, as its vice chairman. Gaines, an interior decorator by training, was a charter member and a chairman of GOPAC, a Republican fundraising group that then-Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) used to engineer the GOP takeover of the House in 1994.

 

With the changes, conservatives with close ties to the Bush administration have assumed control of every important position at the agency, which distributes about $400 million in federal funds to noncommercial radio and TV stations and is supposed to act as a buffer against outside political influence.

 

Gaines succeeds the CPB's highest-ranking Democrat, Frank Cruz. Her election came after the agency's board, which is dominated by Republicans, rejected a bid for the vice chairmanship by its lone independent member, Beth Courtney.

 

In June, the board named former Republican National Committee co-chairman Patricia Harrison as the CPB's president and chief executive, angering Democrats.

 

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Halpern and her husband, Fred, have for years been financial supporters of Republican candidates, including President Bush and Republican Sens. Trent Lott (Miss.), Sam Brownback (Kan.), Conrad Burns (Mont.) and Christopher Bond (Mo.). Mother Jones magazine ranked the Halperns among the nation's top 100 "hard" money donors (contributions made directly to candidates, not party organizations) during the 2004 election cycle, estimating their contributions at $81,800.

 

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In a brief interview yesterday, Halpern declined to express her personal views about bias in public broadcasting. But she said, "We will not be intervening in programming." Allegations of slanted programming, she said, will be referred to the CPB's ombudsmen for review.

 

In contrast to Tomlinson, CPB's two ombudsmen, Ken Bode and William Schulz, have found no evidence of liberal bias after five months on the job. Instead, they have mostly offered praise in the few reports each has issued since Tomlinson created their positions, which pay each of them $50,000 a year for part-time work. In a report issued Sept. 1, for example, Bode observed: "My own conclusion is no different than my perception of PBS and NPR when I accepted the position of ombudsman in April -- that considerations of fair and balanced is not as big a problem here as elsewhere. This is not Fox News."

 

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[Rex Kickass]

Did anyone notice that they hired an interior designer named Gay?

[KipWellsFan]

Did anyone notice that they hired an interior designer named Gay?

 

Yah for a minute I was like, welll hmmmmmm she can't be that conservative.

[Heads22]

And Barney gets cancelled, because dinosaurs didn't exist.

[Rex Kickass]

And women can't stand in a kitchen together anymore for fear of lesbianism.

[Soxy]

And women can't stand in a kitchen together anymore for fear of lesbianism.

But they can, of course, stand in a kitchen.

[Rex Kickass]

just different ones.

 

preferably barefoot and pregnant

[Soxy]

just different ones.

 

preferably barefoot and pregnant

And with a dishrag in one hand and a mug for beer in the other.

[Rex Kickass]

That sounds great.

 

Finally someone washes my mug!

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

You guys got issues

 

 

:rolly

[knightni]

Why do brides wear white?

 

So that the dishwasher matches the refridgerator and stove.

[Soxy]

You guys got issues

:rolly

Yep, you're right there's no such thing as sexism. Especially not in the work place. I know that I can be treated exactly the same as my male counterparts. Yep, definitely. :rolly

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

Yep, you're right there's no such thing as sexism. Especially not in the work place. I know that I can be treated exactly the same as my male counterparts. Yep, definitely.  :rolly

 

 

You know what, the law says that you're supposed to be and if people break the law then you report it and they get slammed. You feel you're being treated unfairly then use the tools you have.

 

BTW I dont see how in the hell this relates to public television but that needed a response.

[Texsox]

Why do brides wear white?

 

So that the dishwasher matches the refridgerator and stove.

 

Why are women's feet smaller?

 

 

So they can stand closer to the sink

 

 

Actually, I am rather saddened when we start dividing the world up into conservative and liberal. I really don't care who is at the helm of PBS. After all it is PUBLIC and liberals and conservatives are part of the PUBLIC. As long as they are good, decent, honest, hard working, etc. it shouldn't make a difference.

[Heads22]

Why are women's feet smaller?

So they can stand closer to the sink

Actually, I am rather saddened when we start dividing the world up into conservative and liberal. I really don't care who is at the helm of PBS. After all it is PUBLIC and liberals and conservatives are part of the PUBLIC. As long as they are good, decent, honest, hard working, etc. it shouldn't make a difference.

 

Quit it. You're making sense and we cannot have that.

[Texsox]

Quit it. You're making sense and we cannot have that.

 

Part 1 or Part 2

[Balta1701]

You guys got issues

 

Beautiful reply Nuke.