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Article: Opponents On Different Wavelengths; Public Broadcasting Fight's Partisan Divide
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 23, 2005
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People who work in public television and radio bristle whenever
they're accused of favoring liberal ideas and views over conservative
ones. Public broadcasting, they say, is committed to presenting
diverse opinions.
Yet as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on the
biggest federal cutback ever for public broadcasting, there isn't
much diversity to be found among the people on either side. The
battle lines over public broadcasting have been drawn in sharply
partisan fashion: Democrats in Congress and liberal organizations
have emerged as public broadcasting's most visible and vocal
supporters, while Republicans and conservatives have stayed mostly
silent.
Among the groups that have ...