next target in the conservative's scorched-earth information war: PBS

The conservatives have already conquered all the major media platforms and made them bend to their political leanings. This is especially apparent in watching major network news programming - they have become simple mouthpieces for government talking heads and right-wing propaganda.

So, having already conquered that medium, they are turning their sights onto primary and vitally important fonts of objective truth, knowledge and open minds. Their first two targets in this war were science and academia. While academia continues to fight the good fight to keep political partisanship out of it's halls, public science has basically succumbed to the pressure with only minor leaks of truth and protest at being used.

Now the victorious conservative's have turned their sights back to media and public broadcasting. Their strategy is simple and single-minded, but also devious and two-pronged. They decry over and over again the "liberal bias" of public broadcasting and at the same time queitly take over positions of power within those organizations and force out anyone with a point of view that is different than theirs.

They constantly mistake objective truth and fact as being biased against them (although I would argue they know full and well that the "liberal bias" argument is just a ruse).. What they can't see or admit is that these days more often than not the truth is what they disagree with. The truth often points out their faults and lies and distortions, their underhanded agendas and their self serving political tactics. The only way they can respond to this is to then suppress those truths...

We need to be up in arms about this now! Write a message to PBS here: http://www.pbs.org/aboutsite/aboutsite_emailform.html

You can read more about this most recent assault on truth here:
NYT (requires free reg): http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/arts/television/02public.html?hp&ex=1115006400&en=449e1c9c1177152f&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Houston Chronicle: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3161070

Peace and harmony to all,
Dana