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Article: Are PBS and NPR partisan to the DNC? (Public Broadcasting Service; National Public Radio; Democratic National Committee) (Column)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- July 18, 1994
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Are Republicans masochists or simply suckers when. it comes to funding public broadcasting and its anti-Republican bias? Year after year, Republican legislators appropriate hundreds of millions of dollars to public radio and television broadcasters, who return the favor by promoting the agendas of their political opponents.
During the 1992 presidential elections, for example, public television ran two hour-long shows charging that former presidents Bush and Reagan "stole" the 1980 election by cutting a deal with the Ayatollah Khomeini to delay the release of American hostages in Iran. There was no opportunity given the Republicans for rebuttal. (Nor were any ...