If PBS is going to be this biased, they shouldn't get federal dollars

[Texmaster]

PBS has pushed the line before but this new attack on the scouts in simply flagerant.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27695,00.html

I dont care if they only get "a little" from the federal government, if you're going to be this biased, do it with your own money. I dont have a problem with that.

 

[PrinceofWands]

I certainly agree that they should remain NEUTRAL in the reporting (that means don't agree with the scouts either), but listen to this:

~One group that won't have its opinions aired firsthand on the documentary is the Boy Scouts of America, which refused comment both in Scout's Honor and for Fox News.~

They say right there that the Boy Scouts REFUSED to offer their position on the show. I'm betting (from my experience with the scouts and other strongly 'opinionated' groups) that PBS tried to get input from them, tried to balance the debate, but was shrugged off with the standard "If you aren't totally going to agree with us you can go burn in Hell" response that everyone who doesn't support the scouts gets.

I don't want to open the scouts can of worms, but if PBS tried to let them offer their story and was refused, then they've done their job and deserve funding. It's only if they had the opportunity to present opposing viewpoints and chose not to for personal reasons that they've acted incorrectly.

 

[Stark]

It's an independent film that was shown at Sundance. Now they're showing it on PBS. Big deal. Many PBS shows (like Frontline) are the most informative and balanced on TV today.

 

[WordSmith2000]

<< Fox News Channel media analyst Eric Burns, who has viewed the film, said that though the film's cost in tax dollars comes to &quot;less than a penny a person,&quot; the danger comes in the precedent the documentary sets. Despite Mertes' claim to present all views, Scout's Honor doesn't give equal air time to people who support the Boy Scout ban, he said.

&quot;What this documentary did was make all opponents of gays in scouting look virulently anti-scouting,&quot; he said. >>



Read that last sentence about 10 times, and see if it makes sense to you. It makes no sense to me, either. But that is the whole tone of the article, and of Tex's post. The BSA is virulently anti-gay; does anyone doubt that? The fact that they would not be part of the documentary (because the goddamfags are filming it) even to air their side says a lot about their views.

FOX news, for it's part, would not know a balanced news story if it spurted truth in their face. A producer made a film about the neanderthal attitude the BSA takes towards gays, and the government funded less than 5 % of it. BFD. FOX acts like it has unearthed Herbert Hoover's cache of women's clothing. Oh wait, HH was a conservative...sorry that will never happen.

Tell you what, tex...you can withold 2 cents out of your tax check for the &quot;liberal pinkofag&quot; PBS, and everyone else in America will withold the majority of their tax checks, representing the hundreds of billions of dollars that the feds hand out as corporate welfare every year.

If you want to cry about Federally financed obscenity, why don't you cry about that?



<< A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers decide what is 'irresponsible'.

Source: R.A. Heinlein >>

 

[67gt500]

FOX news, for it's part, would not know a balanced news story if it spurted truth in their face. A producer made a film about the neanderthal attitude the BSA takes towards gays, and the government funded less than 5 % of it. BFD. FOX acts like it has unearthed Herbert Hoover's cache of women's clothing. Oh wait, HH was a conservative...sorry that will never happen.

Tell you what, tex...you can withold 2 cents out of your tax check for the &quot;liberal pinkofag&quot; PBS, and everyone else in America will withold the majority of their tax checks, representing the hundreds of billions of dollars that the feds hand out as corporate welfare every year.


Once again you have managed to prove that liberalism is not a philosophical ideal, it is a mental disorder.

 

[HansHurt]

Oh, yea *twirls finger in the air* , another Texmaster thread.


PBS..come on man...gheez!


And 67gt500 gets another finger twirl w/ an eye roll, and a yawn to boot.

 

[WordSmith2000]

Being a Troll is a mental disorder as well, 67. And changing what people think about you will be next to impossible.

You are the weakest link.

Goodbye.

 

[67gt500]

WordSmith you are apparently evidence in and of itself that our public education system needs an overhaul.

 

[Balt]

I'm so sick of all this whiney $hit about the Boy Scouts.

The Boy Scouts have very strict ideals, homosexuals do not abide by some of those ideals, such as &quot;reverence (to God)&quot; in the eyes of that organization.

If you don't like their ideals and can't abide by them DON'T JOIN THEM AND LEAVE THEM THE HELL ALONE.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against homosexuals, but I also have nothing against an organization sticking to its ideals (as long as they don't involve something REALLY stupid like racism).

The Boy Scouts weren't founded for EVERYONE. They were founded for a certain group of people who can follow certain rules and ideals.

And yes, I was a Boy Scout.

 

[67gt500]

But Balt, they hold meetings on public grounds.

The government is sanctioning anti homosexual propoganda.

 

[Balt]

<The government is sanctioning anti homosexual propoganda.>

You make it sound like they go look for homosexuals during their meetings so they can beat them up. The homosexuality issue is never brought up at meetings. The whole fight is taking place on the administrative level.

And there are worse organizations that get to use public grounds, I assure you. Remember the first amendment?

 

[67gt500]

You make it sound like they go look for homosexuals during their meetings so they can beat them up. The homosexuality issue is never brought up at meetings. The whole fight is taking place on the administrative level.

I don't think that the boy scouts should be bothered. I think that we are neutering our constitution to suit the left wing HS in this country.

Somehow they derive a right to an abortion out of a nonexistent right to privacy clause yet when it comes to the 1st or 2nd ammendment the ACLU or any other liberal wheel of lotion can manage to ignore it.

Lets just make sure that the boyscouts remain neutrel in their retoric so that the opposition does not get any free ammunition.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Kudos to Wordsmith for an excellent, well-thought-out post.

 

[Dan]

In the age of cable and satellite TV there is no justification for a &quot;Public&quot; Broadcasting System. There shouldn't be any government dollars going to &quot;PBS.&quot;

 

[67gt500]

hey dan,

take the USPS out with pbs.

usps is a tax free entity that can't even break even.

 

[AndrewR]

If part of the justification for being against the Boy Scouts is because they use &quot;public facilities&quot; (my troop met in a church, hardly public -- but anyway) then the latest Supreme Court ruling in favor of a religious group using a school for a meeting pretty much eliminates that argument because I bet I could find instances of schools/public buildings providing meeting places for gay groups.

Just an FYI.

 

[Balt]

AndrewR,

My troop met on property owned by the church too. Somehow I think even if ALL of the Boy Scout troops out there don't meet on public property, they will continue to be attacked for upholding their ideals.

To such people, I would suggest you review a little something called the Bill of Rights.