Pando Daily-- "The news of PBS actively soliciting financing from billionaire political activists – and custom tailoring original program proposals for those financiers – follows a wave of damning revelations about the influence of super-wealthy political interests over public broadcasting. Thanks to collusion with PBS executives, those monied interests are increasingly permitted to launder their ideological and self-serving messages through the seeming objectivity of public television.
WNET officials refused to provide any details of the Arnold Foundation-PBS contract with a spokesperson telling Pando that “such agreements are always confidential.” This refusal came despite PBS being a public institution that watchdog groups insist is subject to Freedom of Information Act regulations.
What's The Fuss?
Recently PBS did a special entitled "Pension Peril”-- "secretly funded by former Enron trader John Arnold, a billionaire political powerbroker who is actively trying to shape the very pension policy that the series claims to be dispassionately covering.".
It's clear both MSNBC and FOX are agenda driven. When PBS also climbs on the band wagon it now becomes a matter of whether there's no longer a single media organization that can be trusted. Were things always this way or was it over the last few years ethics have gone out the window?
A point can be made as to whether someone doing a blog or tweeting is any less reputable then what we once assumed our main stream professionals provided? Especially when one considers someone doing the tweeting or blogging on a topic isn't contingent on someone's bankrolling their efforts. Kind of makes you wonder if there's anything we can place our faith in doesn't it?
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