PBS gave Perle hour to repeat debunked claims about Iraqi WMDs and links to Al Qaeda..

[babsbunny]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200704230004?src=item200704230004

On the PBS series America at a Crossroads, former Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle, in an April 17 segment titled "The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom," made a series of assertions about the Iraq war that have already been shown to be false.

[AX10]

1. Once we get back into power, including the WH...

we will have to "deal" with PBS too.

[babsbunny]

2. They will get no more support from me!

[coalition_unwilling]

4. Me neither. I called up our local PBS affiliate KCET (Los Angeles)

during their next to latest fund drive to explain why I would no longer contribute to them.

[Gman]

3. They had appointed a neocon as head of PBS a couple of years ago

I think the guy was finally run off, but it sure seems like PBS is starting to bow to it's neocon masters. PBS was on a hitlist (so to speak) of so-called liberal media. PBS especially got targeted because it receives public money.

[LSparkle]

5. I was appalled at that segment, as well as that one with Isikoff

He and another reporter interviewed Fran Townsend at length -- it was almost like they were just parroting the WH talking points.

I'd expected more of a series hosted by Robert MacNeil and was VERY disappointed. It almost looked like PBS was "pre-atoning" for the Moyers' special coming up this Wednesday ...

[AJ9000]

6. Robert Parry wrote an article about this and chronicled the conservative turn

at PBS. He used to work for frontline.

http://www.consortiumnews.com./2007/041907.html

snip:

PBS is broadcasting what amounts to a neoconservative propaganda series entitled “America at a Crossroads,” which has included a full hour info-mercial for George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq written and narrated by Richard Perle, one of the war’s architects.

The Perle segment, entitled “The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom,” treated anti-war Americans as deranged individuals. Perle, though known as the “prince of darkness,” spoke in a quiet almost regretful tone, expressing disappointment that “conspiracy theories” and hatred of Bush had blinded so many people to the rightness of the Iraq War.

To show examples of these pathetic anti-war lunatics, the PBS program included short clips of actors Martin Sheen and Tim Robbins while Perle did a voice-over that talked about them like a psychiatrist who sadly saw no choice but to sign commitment papers.

The implication of the PBS program was that there was only one reasonable and moral conclusion, which was to support President Bush wholeheartedly in his invasion of Iraq and his conduct of the “war on terror.”

PBS officials also have declared that they see no reason to give a similar length of time to opponents of the Iraq War. Indeed, Jeff Bieber, an executive producer at PBS’s Washington affiliate WETA, endorsed the right-wing bias of “The Case for War” as an opportunity for PBS to “showcase a conservative viewpoint.”

[KOBUK]

7. I'm withdrawing my support of KCET in Los Angeles as well !