[extropy-chat] PBS turns into CSS [was: The Force of HumanFreedom]

[Samantha Atkins]

I expect the "general tax base to support equal rights for all.    
Should we who are denied equal rights support "public broadcasting that  
wishes to ignore our very existence and  or treat us as undesirables?

- s
On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:35 PM, tankdoc wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olga Bourlin"  
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> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] PBS turns into CSS [was: The Force of  
> HumanFreedom]
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>> From: "Amara Graps" <Amara.Graps at ifsi.rm.cnr.it>
>>
>>>> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front/map/
>>>
>>> Sheesh...!!  Now PBS too??
>>>
>>> With  that relentless hammering of fear, how do you folks sleep
>>> at night, or get out of bed in the morning?
>>
>> It's worse than that, Amara.  PBS (I now call them CSS, to be uttered  
>> with a fowl sneer) has recently caved in over the dilemma over  
>> imaginary cartoon characters' sexual orientations, and pulled their  
>> support of some real families (e.g., a family that was headed by two  
>> lesbian women who are join in civil union in Vermont).
>>
>> Culture Wars Pull Buster Into the Fray
>> By JULIE SALAMON
>> Published: January 27, 2005
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/arts/television/27bust.html? 
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>
> Thats all fine and good - but why would you expect the general tax  
> base of America to support this? If you want this agenda pushed foward  
> then finding private funding seems the right way to go.
>
> Cladari
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