From Greg Palast After pledging transparency, PBS hides details of new deal with billionaire owner of NewsHour by David Sirota | Pando Last month, in response to Pando’s revelations that anti-pension mogul John Arnold secretly was financing PBS’s “Pension Peril” series, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting issued a scathing report demanding immediate reform. Criticizing “the lack of transparency” at PBS, CPB’s ombudsman Joel Kaplan declared that public broadcasting outlets must let the public access details of their financial dealings. So how’s that new commitment to transparency going? Here’s how: Once again, a PBS flagship station is in the process of negotiating a deal with a politically active mogul. Once again, the deal involves the NewsHour — the same iconic PBS program that stealthily promoted Arnold’s anti-pension programming. And once again, PBS is refusing to disclose the deal’s financial details to the public. The major difference this time is that this new story of secrecy isn’t about who funds the journalism on the NewsHour. It is about who actually owns the NewsHour. Read the full story here: pando/2014/03/07/after-pledging-transparency-pbs-hides-details-of-new-deal-with-billionaire-owner-of-newshour/ Theres a reason why I call PBS The Petroleum Broadcast System... gregpalast/the-petroleum-broadcast-systemowes-us-an-apology/ And lets not forget how far PBS went to avoid upsetting David Koch over the airing of Alex Gibneys “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.” newyorker/reporting/2013/05/27/130527fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 06:25:13 +0000
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