Alice":2j6watij said:
hurleyjd":2j6watij said:
I have been following this thread for a while. I know very little about the Muslim Religon. Can any one tell me what makes a Sunni a Sunni And A Shite a Shite. Also how come all of the religons of the World started in one place geographical speaking. How come the Jews and the Muslims are arguing over one place, Mohammod picked the same spot to ascend into Heaven on a white horse. Seems that Sharon went to this place and pi$$ed everyone off and started the last round of violence. This same place also has some Holy signfiance to the Jews also. Seem's as if God was in control he could take care of this mess once and for all. Also some time in the past I watched a show on Channel Thirteen about the mideast. It was actual a historical narative of Lawerence of Araibia, not the holly wood version. Channel thirteen is our PBS station. Any way Lawerence was able to get the Arabs together and kicked the Germans A$$. The British goverment had promised the Arabs a lot to get them to help. After they helped and won the British pulled the rug out from under them and did not do any thing as agreed. I thought at the time if I was an Arab I would be plenty pi$$ed at the British for not honoring their agreement, may be they are still pi$$ed.
Amazing how a lot of the people in the past think they came from God. Hirohito had the Japanese convinced that his family was put on earth by God. Not our God mind you but some pagan God that they believed in and who was not very important to us.
Ya' know what, hurlyjd, I don't watch TV, but I think I need to. I used to watch PBS a lot until I quit watching TV altogether. I wish I'd seen the show you had. PBS brings things to viewers without bias, I think...presents all sides and allows us to make our own decisions.
Alice
Monday, May 2, 2005 Noon EDT
Republicans Angry at PBS Bias
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's own chairman has confirmed what critics have long been saying: Public television has a liberal bias.
And he's determined to do something about it.
Chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson hired an outside consultant last year to monitor the political leanings of the PBS show "Now With Bill Moyers."
He recently hired the director of the White House Office of Global Communications as a senior staff member.
Tomlinson also urged public broadcasting officials to air "The Journal Editorial Report," hosted by Paul Gigot, editor of the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial page.
And his choice for the corporation's president and chief executive is Patricia Harrison, a former co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.
"My goal here is to see programming that satisfies a broad constituency," he told the New York Times. "I'm not after removing shows or tampering internally with shows."
Tomlinson, who has frequently criticized programs on PBS as too liberal, added, "I frankly feel at PBS headquarters there is a tone deafness to issues of tone and balance."
Robert Coonrod, who served as corporation president until last July, said Tomlinson is "trying to help the people in public broadcasting understand why some people in the conservative movement think PBS is hostile to them, and imbue public broadcasting with the notion of balance because he thinks that long term it's a winner in getting Congressional support."
PBS receives nearly $400 million in federal money each year, according to the Times, and received a gift of $200 million from Joan Kroc, the late wife of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc.
It's no surprise that Tomlinson focused his bias-sniffing on Moyers, who left "Now" last year but is back on the air hosting "Wide Angle."
Moyers was harshly critical of Republicans and the Bush administration. After Republicans gained control of the Senate in 2002, Moyers – an aide in the Lyndon Johnson administration – said the federal government was "united behind a right-ring agenda."
Even before Tomlinson hired a consultant to monitor Moyers' show, he sent a letter to Pat Mitchell, president and chief executive of PBS, complaining: "'Now With Bill Moyers' does not contain anything approaching the balance the law requires for public broadcasting."
