Subject: FPCC member to CPB Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 01:04:27 +0000 From: "J. Stevens" Organization: startext.net Newsgroups: startext.jfk A former member of the FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE has been named the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! The following is reprinted below from: http://dolphin.gulf.net/sep23-96/Communist [QUOTE ON] COMMUNIST GETS TOP MEDIA POST Washington Post Again Shows Its Extreme Bias The Corporation for Public Broadcasting last week voted Alan Sagner to be the new chairman. Mr. Sagner was a founding member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a Communist organization that supported Fidel Castro's revolution. Another prominent member of that organization, of course, was Lee Harvey Oswald. Later being a part owner of the radical extremist "Nation" magazine, Mr. Sagner fits very well to the left-leaning CPB indeed. The CPB provides public funding and leadership to PBS and NPR, although sometimes they don't want to admit it. NPR host Linda Wertheimer last year repeatedly lied on C-SPAN when she said that NPR received no public funding. Mr. Sagner was appointed to the CPB by Bill Clinton, and the Washington Times sees this as part of a Clinton coup at public broadcasting. Previous Clinton appointees include Hillary friend Diane Blair, the wife of Jim Blair who was the source of Hillary Clinton's first handsome $100,000 bribe from Tyson Foods back in Arkansas. Also appointed by Bill Clinton is Heidi Schulman, wife of Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor. So it seems that the Clinton mafia has been able to take over control of public broadcasting - although of course it was leaning in his favor already. Speaking of the liberal media, the Washington Post again showed its true colors last week when they showed a demeaning picture of a Bob Dole in agony just after a fall from the podium at a rally. Television viewers saw Dole get up immediately and continue his schedule, but the Post showed a helpless Dole in a four-column-wide picture above the fold. Contrast this with the Post's coverage of Bill Clinton and his travels. When Clinton had a Chicago couple arrested for saying "you suck," the Post covered it up and made sure the news did not make the networks. To the Post, a stumble is front page news, but a potential violation of the First Amendment is not even worthy of a mention. Let us face it. There is a right-wing press and left-wing press in this country. The only media organization that occupies the center is C-SPAN, all others are either right-wing or left- wing. Now, that is all as it should be, except that the right- wing press admits its political stand, while the left-wing press without exception lies about it and denies it. Reporters from the networks, from Time and Newsweek, from the Post and the New York Times, always deny their bias when confronted with it or shown evidence of it. (Rare exceptions, like Bernard Goldberg, are taken to the wood shed after saying that the emperor has no clothes.) This disingeniousness is an invariant attribute of the Left. They all know that if they showed their true colors they would lose their public support and their dominance of the American media culture. Liberal ideas have little support in this country, as Bill Clinton will tell you when he swerves hard right every time it gets close to election time. So liberal reporters have to inject their bias in a subtle and subliminal way that is only noticed by those already on the right. Only occasionally does it become so blatant that even the apolitical and liberal audiences detect it, as happened with the front page humiliation of Bob Dole last week. The liberal and moderate readers of the Post flooded the paper with complaints. Published in the Sep. 23, 1996 issue of The Washington Weekly Copyright (c) 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)