PBS Hurting Under Republicans

It looks as if the Republicans are closer to fulfilling their dream of killing Public Broadcasting, or at least the TV portion. The New York Times today has an article called, Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases. In it they show what looks as if the White House and Karl Rove, have placed into the hierarchy PBS, a Republican operative.

What seems to have really set them off was the show "Now With Bill Moyers." Republicans have always had it in for Moyers as a Leftist and this show seems to have set them off more than usual. With Kenneth Y. Tomlinson placed as head of PBS. He seems to have forced Moyer to leave. Tomlinson really angered many across the country when,

"Last November, members of the Association of Public Television Stations met in Baltimore along with officials from the corporation and PBS. Mr. Tomlinson told them they should make sure their programming better reflected the Republican mandate."

Mr. Tomlinson said that his comment was in jest and that he couldn't imagine how remarks at "a fun occasion" were taken the wrong way. Others, though, were not amused.

All of this seems to show that PBS as we know it is dying at the hands of the Republicans whom have never like or seen the need for it. If things remain as it is now then in a few years a valuable resource to the public will have been lost.

NYT: Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases