Hot on the heels of the report branding NPR as right leaning, comes this news about PBS:
Like a chameleon that turns the color of its surroundings to avoid predators, the Public Broadcasting System – for decades perceived as a bastion of liberal elites – is changing itself into a conservative animal in George W. Bush’s Washington. So argues Ken Auletta in the latest New Yorker, which reports on PBS President Pat Mitchell’s efforts to charm the socks off Vice President Cheney’s wife, Lynne, by floating the idea of offering Cheney her own show, “Lynne Cheney’s History Book.” That one never got off the ground, but Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot and CNN resident right-winger Tucker Carlson will co-anchor a PBS show this fall, Auletta writes. PBS icon Bill Moyers complains: “This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that [the Corporation for Public Broadcasting] has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.”
[Via DCRTV]
