Some Moyers moments:

"I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people."

- Bill Moyers, who retired from the PBS newsmagazine Now on December 17, as quoted by Associated Press television writer Frazier Moore in a December 10 [2004] dispatch.

http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/2005/nq20050103.asp

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"I decided to put on my flag pin tonight - first time. Until now I haven't thought it necessary to display a little metallic icon of patriotism for everyone to see....I put it on to take it back. The flag's been hijacked and turned into a logo - the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism.... When I see flags sprouting on official lapels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao's Little Red Book on every official's desk, omnipresent and unread. "But more galling than anything are all those moralistic ideologues in Washington sporting the flag in their lapels while writing books and running Web sites and publishing magazines attacking dissenters as un-American....I put this on as a modest riposte to men with flags in their lapels who shoot missiles from the safety of Washington think tanks, or argue that sacrifice is good as long as they don't have to make it....I put it on to remind myself that not every patriot thinks we should do to the people of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us."

- Bill Moyers on PBS's Now, February 28 [2003].

http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/2003/nq20030317.asp

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"The entire federal government - the Congress, the executive, the courts - is united behind a right-wing agenda for which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate. That agenda includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to surrender control over their own lives. It includes using the taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich. It includes giving corporations a free hand to eviscerate the environment and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable. And it includes secrecy on a scale you cannot imagine. "Above all, it means judges with a political agenda appointed for life. If you like the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what's coming. And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture.... "So it's a heady time in Washington, a heady time for piety, profits and military power, all joined at the hip by ideology and money. Don't forget the money....Republicans out-raised Democrats by $184 million and they came up with the big prize: monopoly control of the American government and the power of the state to turn their radical ideology into the law of the land. Quite a bargain at any price."

- Bill Moyers' commentary at the end of his PBS show Now on November 8, [2002] the Friday after Republicans won control of the Senate in midterm elections.

http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2002/bestquote.asp

I remember my wife telling me about an interview NPR did with an anonymous member of the ELF right after they torched a research lab in Portland.

Could you imagine NPR doing an interview with an anonymous anti-government fanatic during the Clinton years?

One listener called in and complained saying that each year he had donated money to NPR, now it was going to the NRA.

Speaking of CPB board appointees in general...

Source: Brookings Institute

Brookings interviewed 435 senior-level appointees of the Reagan, Bush I and Clinton administrations and 580 civic and corporate leaders who might be candidates for those jobs.

"Only 11 percent of past appointees and 14 percent of potential appointees said that current appointees represent the best and brightest America has to offer," Light wrote. Three-quarters thought some of the appointees lacked the necessary skills.

...Now as for bias at NPR...

Source: Corporation for Public Broadcasting annual report to congress

According to polling by the Tarrance Group, a GOP polling form which has worked for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, the RNC, and Trent Lott surveyed 1,008 adults in June & July of 2003. 80% gave a favorable rating while 10% gave an unfavorable opinion of both PBS and public radio. More than half found the programming trustworthy constrasting with between 6 and 15 percent who found it untrustworthy.

The CPB board did not release the poll results or share them with PBS or NPR.

...perhaps with those poll findings we should be more troubled by this poll instead...

Source: Pew research center

Five years ago we found that financial pressure in the newsroom was "not a matter of executives or advertisers pressuring journalists about what to write or broadcast."

Now a third of local journalists say they have felt such pressure, most notably from either advertisers or from corporate owners. In other words, one of the most dearly held principles of journalism--the independence of the newsroom about editorial decision-making--increasingly is being breached.

Clarification on the Brookings institute poll: The poll results are not specific to the CPB board of directors; but is focused on all political appointments in general.

I'm afraid I've lost track of the URLs I pulled these from, sorry but its past midnight and I'm not up to finding them again.

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