Did PBS bury controversial torture documentary under pressure from Bush administration?

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from ThinkProgress:



Did PBS bury controversial torture documentary under pressure from Bush administration?»

Scott Horton reports today that PBS may have refused to nationally air a controversial documentary on the use of torture by the U.S. government in order to protect its funding. Previously, the Bush administration threatened to cut PBS’s funding after it aired Bush’s War, a Frontline special critical of the war in Iraq:

On Thursday evening WNET in New York will air an important new documentary by Emmy and Dupont Award winning producer Sherry Jones entitled “Torturing Democracy.” It appears on WNET and several other affiliates independently because PBS would not run the show. (…)

According to producer Sherry Jones, PBS told her that “no time slot could be found for the documentary before January 21, 2009″ — the day after George W. Bush and Dick Cheney leave office.

Watch a clip from Torturing Democracy here.


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/14/buried-pbs-doc/

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1. Well,

'All Things Considered' is now referred to as 'A Couple of Things Considered'.

Dingleberries like Tomlinson and Patricia Harrison (former GOP Chair and current head of Corporation for Public Broadcasting) have been trying their level best to 'remove the bias' from PBS, but it's hard to stop a freight train like FRONTLINE, which has always fought with the gloves off whether they are skewering liberals, conservatives, anybody.