{"id":186315,"date":"2014-03-04T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/04\/why-to-tell-pbs-to-go-cheney-themselves-on-pledge-month-part-dclxxi-dclxxii\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T00:57:00","slug":"why-to-tell-pbs-to-go-cheney-themselves-on-pledge-month-part-dclxxi-dclxxii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/04\/why-to-tell-pbs-to-go-cheney-themselves-on-pledge-month-part-dclxxi-dclxxii\/","title":{"rendered":"Why to Tell PBS to Go Cheney Themselves on Pledge Month, Part DCLXXI &#038; DCLXXII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They throw some highbrow opera and such, and then they <a href=\"http:\/\/pando.com\/2014\/03\/03\/more-pbs-conflict-woes-as-activists-move-to-eject-david-koch-from-board-of-nova-station\/\">pursue the political agenda of right wing industrialists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Last month, Pando\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/pando.com\/2014\/02\/12\/the-wolf-of-sesame-street-revealing-the-secret-corruption-inside-pbss-news-division\/\">\u201cWolf of Sesame Street\u201d investigation<\/a>  broke the news that one of PBS\u2019s flagship outlets had inked a secret  deal with anti-pension billionaire John Arnold. That deal, which was not  explicitly disclosed to viewers, was designed to broadcast anti-pension  programming on public television stations throughout the country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">The story spotlighted how ideological billionaires and powerful  corporations are increasingly \u2013 and stealthily \u2013 attempting to launder  their political agendas through the trusted public-television brand,  potentially in violation of PBS\u2019s own rules.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Now, as part of our continuing investigation into who funds public  television, Pando has learned that a new campaign is being launched  against another major PBS station, once again over the issue of  billionaire influence.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The campaign,&nbsp;sponsored by the environmental group <a href=\"http:\/\/forecastthefacts.org\/\">Forecast the Facts<\/a>,  aims to remove one of the most influential and politically active  fossil fuel magnates from the board of the PBS station that provides  science-related programming to outlets across the US.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The campaign\u2019s target is David Koch, who serves on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/about\/BoardofTrustees.cfm\">board<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/UserFiles\/File\/Annual_Report\/WGBH_20122013_AR.pdf\">Science Visiting Council<\/a>&nbsp;of Boston\u2019s WGBH. These are particularly powerful posts for the conservative financier \u2014 one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/top-senate-dem-koch-brothers-american-22690010\">infamous<\/a> Koch brothers \u2014 because, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/pando.com\/2014\/02\/12\/the-wolf-of-sesame-street-revealing-the-secret-corruption-inside-pbss-news-division\/\">Arnold-infiltrated WNET in New York<\/a>, the Boston station produces many of the national PBS network\u2019s programming. In fact, according to its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/about\/\">website<\/a>, WGBH is \u201cPBS\u2019s single largest producer of Web and TV content.\u201d That includes PBS\u2019s iconic science show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/\">NOVA<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if you read further, you see that WGBH violated PBS guidelines repeatedly to appease the right wing billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>It really sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They throw some highbrow opera and such, and then they pursue the political agenda of right wing industrialists: Last month, Pando\u2019s \u201cWolf of Sesame Street\u201d investigation broke the news that one of PBS\u2019s flagship outlets had inked a secret deal with anti-pension billionaire John Arnold. That deal, which was not explicitly disclosed to viewers, was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,970,969,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-corruption","category-evil","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}