Saturday, May 3, 2008

PBS: A Publicly-Funded `Private Broadcasting Service?'

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If a public broadcasting journalist uses public funds, daily access to publicly-funded television stations and air-time and venture capital ...
Friday, May 2, 2008

ACT-UP And PBS Historically

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In 1991, Downtown asked Robin Haueter, a then-member of ACT-UP, whether ACT-UP was then satisfied with the public broadcasting system’s cov...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Discrimination At PBS Historically

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Although PBS poses as an alternative broadcasting service that is seriously opposed to institutional racism and institutional sexism in the ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

F.A.I.R.'s 1990 Study Of The `NewsHour'--Part 2

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After F.A.I.R. issued its critical report about the MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour in June 1990, F.A.I.R.’s then-executive director, Jeff Cohen,...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

F.A.I.R.'s 1990 Study Of The `NewsHour'--Part 1

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In June 1990, the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting [F.A.I.R.] liberal media watchdog group, which then had an office at 130 W. 25th St. in...
Monday, April 28, 2008

British Influence On U.S. Public Broadcasting Historically

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The Carnegie Commission report of 1979, A Public Trust , also discussed PBS’s anglophilic tendency to employ former BBC correspondents and b...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Protest Columbia University's Complicity With U.S. Imperialism: April 24-27, 2008

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To mark the 40th anniversary of the 1968 Columbia Anti-War Student Revolt against Columbia University’s complicity with U.S. imperialism,vet...