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Why PBS banned me
Posted: May 25, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
by Melanie Morgan
WorldNetDaily: Why PBS banned me
We are losing our rights to freedom of speech due to partisanship and political correctness.
What happened here to Melanie Morgan is similar in principle to what's happening in Iraq where Sunnis don't trust Shiites to act fairly and vice versa.
Posted: May 25, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
by Melanie Morgan
Conservatives have traveled a long and arduous road to get our voices heard, fighting the inherent bias in the media and cultural institutions in our nation.
The advent of talk radio, the Internet and cable news channels has allowed more Americans to hear both sides of the political debate, but many hurdles still remain.
That fact became clear to me this week on a number of fronts.
[...]
This week, the executive producer for the "News Hour with Jim Lehrer" on the publicly funded PBS network put out a statement declaring that I was being banned from ever appearing on that show again.
The ban was issued as a result of my appearance on the program opposite a veteran from Operation Iraqi Freedom who is now an anti-war activist affiliated with the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org.
The anti-war activist and I engaged in a spirited, but civil, debate, with each of us interrupting the other an equal number of times. Both the other guest and I were cordial and cooperative with the anchor, Judy Woodruff.
So, what pronouncement did the PBS producers make against the anti-war activist? None.
Instead, Linda Winslow, executive producer for the "News Hour," issued a statement declaring that only I, the conservative guest, would be banned: "Since the program is produced live, we can't do much to eliminate rude guests from your television screen once the segment has begun; what we can do is guarantee you will never see that person on our program again."
Yes, PBS, a network funded by public tax dollars, has decided only liberal voices will be tolerated, and that any conservative who dares to speak up and challenge liberal activists will be silenced.
The silencing of conservatives occurred on other fronts as well.
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What is happening to our nation?
It's not just children who are being targeted by the liberal thought police.
WorldNetDaily: Why PBS banned me
We are losing our rights to freedom of speech due to partisanship and political correctness.
What happened here to Melanie Morgan is similar in principle to what's happening in Iraq where Sunnis don't trust Shiites to act fairly and vice versa.