What We "Need to Know" About PBS After Moyers
Marty Kaplan
HuffPost
Ever since the right began crying "liberal media," the challenge for the targets of those tantrums has been to figure out how to respond to the mewling. What PBS has done in the wake of Bill Moyers' retirement is a case study in the futile effort of trying to appease the little brat.
If you think that PBS, NPR, and the New York Times — and maybe CBS, NBC and ABC — are liberal mouthpieces; if you think that what Sarah Palin calls the "lamestream media" is biased against conservatives; if you think that FOX News really is "fair and balanced" — well, there's no way I can change your mind.
This dispute can't be settled by evidence. Each side thinks it's advocating accurate, honest and professional journalism. And each side thinks the other is using journalism as a front for waging the culture wars.
Two things are notable about this, and I wish PBS understood them.
(More here.)
HuffPost
Ever since the right began crying "liberal media," the challenge for the targets of those tantrums has been to figure out how to respond to the mewling. What PBS has done in the wake of Bill Moyers' retirement is a case study in the futile effort of trying to appease the little brat.
If you think that PBS, NPR, and the New York Times — and maybe CBS, NBC and ABC — are liberal mouthpieces; if you think that what Sarah Palin calls the "lamestream media" is biased against conservatives; if you think that FOX News really is "fair and balanced" — well, there's no way I can change your mind.
This dispute can't be settled by evidence. Each side thinks it's advocating accurate, honest and professional journalism. And each side thinks the other is using journalism as a front for waging the culture wars.
Two things are notable about this, and I wish PBS understood them.
(More here.)
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