Censorship Courtesy PBS
“Progressives” have long harped about censorship of Hollywood during the “McCarthy Era” but would of course never do any such thing themselves. That is unless your message isn’t politically correct. Well it turns out that is exactly what executives are doing at PBS especially WETA. A series was created to address some of today’s burning issues. This series is called “America at a Crossroads.” One producer with excellent credentials made a proposal which was accepted. He was given $700,000 of tax payer’s money. During post production PBS executives became alarmed. The subject of his documentary was entitled Islam vs. Islamists. The producer claims that these executives demanded that he fire his two co-producers because of their politics! He refused, so the series was cancelled. An interview with the producer can be found here: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=27868
Other information can be found here:
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070411-123042-7035r.htm
an excellent post can be found here
http://www.campus-watch.org/weblog/id/64
and
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0410crossroads0410.html#
and
http://www.freedomszone.com/archives/2007/04/pbs_dropped_islam_vs_islamists.php
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2007/04/pbs_dropped_isl.php
Of course PBS denies that they are censoring the message.
http://www.cpb.org/grants/crossroads/islam-vs-islamists.html
You be the judge.
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