Is PBS supressing a program because it's too conservative?


It's hard to ignore the possibility
Here's one from one of my "backyard papers."

The producer of a tax-financed documentary on Islamic extremism claims his film has been dropped for political reasons from a television series that airs next week on more than 300 PBS stations nationwide.

Key portions of the documentary focus on Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser of Phoenix and his American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a non-profit organization of Muslim Americans who advocate patriotism, constitutional democracy and a separation of church and state.

Martyn Burke says that the Public Broadcasting Service and project managers at station WETA in Washington, D.C., excluded his documentary, Islam vs. Islamists, from the series America at a Crossroads after he refused to fire two co-producers affiliated with a conservative think tank.

Now I haven't seen the film and I don't know if that is the only reason PBS decided not to carry it.

I do know that it is not the first time that PBS may have slanted their coverage of controversial topics. Or even the second.

My question now is why can't the American people decide for themselves?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - April 12, 2007 at 05:30 AM  Tag


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