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

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olga Bourlin" <fauxever at sprynet.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] PBS turns into CSS [was: The Force of 
HumanFreedom]


> 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?oref=login

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